LIFE
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Panama Sends Incarcerated Women to Clean Streets as Trash Crisis Deepens
In San Miguelito, garbage has become a daily geography—piled along sidewalks, wedged into gutters, drifting toward rivers and sea. Now…
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Ciudad Juárez Reckons with Femicide in a Film That Refuses Silence
A decade after Adriana Paz first helped put Ciudad Juárez's nightmare on screen, she is back at Sundance with "La…
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Bolivia’s Second Chances Are Made of Bread, Metal, and Thread
At three thousand nine hundred meters above sea level, just outside La Paz, a place designed for punishment smells, unexpectedly,…
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Guatemala City Faces Unrest as El Gallito Reopens and the City Feels Under Siege
After ten police killings and a state of siege, armed patrols enter El Gallito, a neighborhood long ruled by gangs,…
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Cuban Actor Breaks Dance Myths with Grief, Humor, and Motion
At Sundance, where independent cinema thrives on contradiction, a Cuban actor admits he cannot dance—and turns that confession into a…
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Bolivia’s Freestyle Behind Bars Program Gives Incarcerated Youth a Second Chance
At Qalauma on Bolivia's Altiplano, teenage voices once reduced to case files now fight for air through rhyme. A prison-yard…
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Why Colombia’s Grief for Yeison Jiménez Runs So Deep: He Gave Voice to Their Pain
When Colombia learned on January 10, 2026, that Yeison Jiménez had died in a plane crash, the reaction felt immediate…
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Latin America Confronts Julio Iglesias: Legacy, Power, and Breaking the Silence
For Latin America, Julio Iglesias was never just a Spanish singer. He was a romance translated into Spanish, a bridge…
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Puerto Rico’s Bigheads March Again With Peace, Plena, and Memory
In Old San Juan, the year’s loudest argument isn’t shouted—it’s danced. This weekend’s Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián brings…
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Using Latin American News to Improve Spanish Class Vocabulary
Studying Spanish often means learning words in lists, then trying to remember them during class. News from Latin America gives…
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