LIFE
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Lady Gaga and Tim Burton Turn Mexico City’s Island of the Dolls into Pop Gothic Legend
Mexico City's Xochimilco canals have always been a crossroads of myth and cinema. With The Dead Dance, Lady Gaga and…
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Mexico City Floods Meet an Unlikely Culprit: Dog Poop, Hair, and the Wrong Bins
Mexico City's rainy season has smashed records, but clogged drains tell a different story. Behind flooded intersections lies a quieter…
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Medellín’s Tourist Homes Promise Wellness but Threaten Residents’ Place in this Colombian City
Medellín once reinvented itself with libraries, cable cars and public parks. Now cranes and jackhammers are carving boutique “tourist homes”…
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How a Colombian-American Artist on Death Row Helped Name a Killer
A nineteen-year-old mother vanishes in 1974. Decades later, a death-row painter in California befriends a serial killer and coaxes out…
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Guatemala Learns to Dance with Death, Memory, And Unfinished Histories
In three long, haunting stories, Guatemalan writer Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez turns death from a doom into a reckoning. As he…
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In a Colombian Cemetery, Former Enemies Unearth the Bones of Peace
In Palmira, Colombia, former guerrillas and soldiers now dig side by side—not to bury the past, but to exhume it.…
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Dominican Reality Show Breaks the Internet by Letting Fans Rule
A 24/7 livestream from a chaotic house in Santo Domingo has turned into Latin America's loudest media event, breaking global…
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Ecuador’s Cloud Kingdom, Where Ancient Conifers Guard Rivers Against Greed
Mist drapes the ridgelines of southern Ecuador, then slides into ravines where orchids bead with rain. Between two Andean spines,…
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Ecuadorian Dreams of Disney, Lands in America’s Asylum Waiting Room
A promised Disney vacation turned into an escape from Guayaquil's spiraling violence, sending a mother and her daughter into the…
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Latin America Mourns the Loss of the Dúo Dinámico Resilient Voice
Manuel de la Calva, the Barcelona-born songwriter and singer who helped define Spanish pop in the 1960s and later gifted…
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