LIFE
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Cuba’s Garbage Crisis Turns Daily Life into a Test of Silence
Mountains of trash line Havana's streets, feeding fears of disease and quiet anger. A government cleanup pledge promised a turning…
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Ecuador Film Finds Humor in Midlife, Family, and What Men Avoid Saying
At forty, a man loses his job and suddenly hears time louder. In Ecuador's new film Nosotros, Mi Papá y…
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Powerful Lessons Students Can Learn from Latin American Social Reformers
When we think about social change, it's easy to imagine loud protests, passionate speeches, or revolutionary movements. But what often…
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Ecuador’s Yachay Wasi Teaches Climate Lessons Through Indigenous Language and a Garden
In Ecuador, a small intercultural bilingual school called Yachay Wasi treats environmental education as a political project rooted in Indigenous…
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Brazil’s El Agente Secreto Wins Big by Refusing Hollywood Imitation
Brazilian filmmakers are landing major awards and attention with a film set in 1977 Brazil, built on local tradition, not…
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Mexican Pop Star Turns Nahuatl and Maya Into Mainstream Fire
On a Mexico City rooftop, Azalea Báalam lifts a jaina flute and plays nine notes into the open air. What…
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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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