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Spanish-language narrative journalism from across Latin America and Latino life.
Radio Ambulante follows people caught inside larger Latin American histories: threatened researchers, young migrants, rural neighbors, athletes, students, and communities pushed to defend themselves. Its reporting moves slowly and carefully, letting testimony, place, and consequence gather weight.
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Radio Ambulante tells long-form reported stories from across Latin America and the Latino diaspora. The show is hosted and framed by Daniel Alarcón, with episodes built around character-driven reporting rather than studio debate. In the sampled episodes, the subjects include a French Jesuit seeking Peruvian citizenship, Mexican emos facing public hostility, a Guatemalan family confronting a homophobic police killing, and an Argentine gymnast reckoning with abusive high-performance sports culture. The show often starts with a personal or local story, then opens into larger questions about nationalism, discrimination, institutions, family silence, and who gets protected. Its reporting moves comfortably between cultural history, investigative journalism, and intimate memoir-style narrative. Recurring settings include Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, and other parts of Latin America. The tone is serious and humane, with room for curiosity, irony, grief, and unresolved complexity. Episodes tend to foreground voices from the people directly affected, while producers and editors shape the story with clear narrative structure. Listeners should expect Spanish-language audio journalism that is patient, specific, and often emotionally heavy. It is a strong fit for people who want Latin American stories told through lived experience rather than headlines alone.
Made for: Best for listeners who want deeply reported Spanish-language stories about Latin America, identity, culture, justice, and social conflict.
What sets it apart: Radio Ambulante combines literary narrative craft with grounded field reporting on under-covered Latin American and Latino stories.
Radio Ambulante es un podcast pionero en español que cuenta crónicas latinoamericanas en audio, celebrando la diversidad y complejidad de la región. / Radio Ambulante is an award-winning Spanish language podcast that uses long-form audio journalism to tell neglected and under-reported Latin American and Latino stories.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Radio Ambulante tells careful reported stories about Latin American life, where ordinary people meet the pressure of culture, power, and memory.
Radio Ambulante belongs in Society & Culture because it treats Latin American life as reported story, not as a theme to summarize from a distance.
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A professor's seed work becomes a family story about fear, separation, and survival in Ayacucho.
Radio Ambulante's "Contra los biopiratas" begins with Julio, an agronomy and plant genetics professor in Ayacucho, trying to protect the seed work he and his colleagues had built at Alpachaca as Sendero Luminoso's violence closes in.
Gabriela's push toward one last goal turns elite gymnastics into a story about timing, pressure, and leaving well.
El podio settles into Gabriela's late stretch as an artistic gymnast, after an injury and at the point where time in elite competition starts to feel brutally short. At 16, she changes coaches because she feels she has hit a ceiling and needs a different plan.
A grounded Radio Ambulante story about explosions, vanished rain, and a farming town fighting to be heard.
Outside Puebla, farmers in San Lorenzo hear explosions as black rain clouds gather, then watch the rain fail to arrive. Radio Ambulante follows that unsettling pattern through Nazario's fields and the neighbors' growing suspicion that Volkswagen's hail-breaking cannons are…
A warm, wry portrait of Bernardo, whose deep study of Peru runs into a strangely elementary test.
Radio Ambulante traces Bernardo from Nazi-occupied Paris to the Jesuit novice school, where he finds an intellectual life built on ideas, conversation, and a certain orderly way of thinking. The episode gets most interesting when that mind turns toward Peru.
A family tragedy becomes a careful reckoning with the brother Henry never fully knew.
A murder in San Andres Itzapa opens into a quieter, more painful mystery: how much Henry did not know about his brother Eldin. After prosecutors show him a blood-stained car and send him to identify a body, the story moves to the funeral, where a stranger grieves over the coffin…
A child performer's TV breakthrough becomes a troubling study of fame, family scrutiny, and Chilean media appetite.
Radio Ambulante tells Crystal's story as a collision between childhood talent and the appetite of live television. It begins at the final of Red in La Tortuga de Talcahuano, packed beyond comfort, with the announcer working from a bathroom booth because there was nowhere else to…
Early Radio Ambulante stories from Argentina find their charge in local memory, handmade inventions, and stubborn private dreams.
Radio Ambulante returns to some of its earliest Argentina stories, and the pleasure is in how small, local details open into whole lives. There is a Buenos Aires apartment search, but the strongest pull comes from Elio Sanpelungue's workshop: iron, wood, pulleys, tools, a…
A sharp Mexico City story about emo identity, public tension, and a plaza waiting to tip into conflict.
Radio Ambulante returns to March 15, 2008, when young emos gathered at Mexico City's Glorieta de Insurgentes to defend their identity after violence in Queretaro a week earlier.
Willa Paskin traces one cultural mystery per episode, from web soap operas to prune marketing.
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San Quentin's incarcerated and formerly incarcerated producers tell first-person stories from inside prison.
PJ Vogt investigates one question a week, from GLP-1 drugs to driverless-car policy.
A phone call darkens the house.
Gabriela has recovered from an injury.
The explosions did not sound like fireworks.
This episode explores the struggles and activism of transgender immigrants in Queens, focusing on the legacy of Lorena Borjas and the ongoing fight against discrimination, police violence, and political hostility.
This episode explores the legend of a terrifying creature from Puerto Rico that caused panic in the 1990s by attacking animals, with origins traced to Canóvanas.
This episode follows Mar, a young Venezuelan woman and her family's journey to the United States, exploring their hopes for a better future and eventual return to their homeland.
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This episode explores the story of Lorena Borjas, a trans Latina immigrant and sex worker in New York who fought for survival, and introduces a narrative about Sergio Montes, a shy teenager in a Mexican school in 2007.
Radio Ambulante’s "La insoportable levedad de ser peruano" follows Bernardo, a French Jesuit who arrives in Peru in 1986 at age 51 and later decides he wants to become Peruvian legally.
This episode of La Brega tells the story of a Puerto Rican athlete during the 1980 Moscow Olympics who faced a boycott call from the United States while representing Puerto Rico as a nation.
This episode explores the story of Lorena Borjas, a trans Latina immigrant and sex worker activist in New York, and Daniel Genovese, a teenager in 1980s Argentina questioning his faith and relationship with the church.
A funeral reveals what Henry had missed.
Crystal made it to a final.
A narrative about two friends living together in Bogotá, one working for the truth commission, leading up to a mysterious event.
A woman named Lulu shares her experience living with osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, and the chronic pain it causes.
This episode tells the story of Lorena Borjas, a Latina trans immigrant and sex worker in Queens, and her fight for survival and prosperity.
A narrative episode exploring a family's history in a small Dominican town through personal stories and cultural context.
Radio Ambulante returns to a favorite story about a family inheritance dispute in the Dominican Republic.
Three Argentine stories return from Radio Ambulante's early years.
This episode explores the people behind Wikipedia articles, questioning how often we use the platform and who contributes to it.
A narrative episode about Imanol Subiala Salvo, a gay man from Trelew, Argentina, exploring his life beyond stereotypes.
This episode reports on the Trump administration's increased border security funding and ICE raids targeting Latinos in Chicago.
A woman in Bogota experiences a strange chemical smell while working from home, part of a larger narrative about Latin American life.
A woman recounts her experience auditioning for a movie role, reflecting on her acting background and decision to take the opportunity.
A story about a person traveling to Costa Rica to take ayahuasca with indigenous people, exploring the trend of wealthy celebrities seeking psychedelic healing.
Live radio coverage of the M-19 guerrilla assault on the Colombian Palace of Justice, detailing the initial takeover and military response.
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This episode explores the unexpected cultural phenomenon of Latin American soap operas captivating audiences in Romania in the 1990s.
This episode explores the intense national pride surrounding Peruvian gastronomy through street interviews and stories of those who dared to criticize it.
A journalistic report on the housing crisis faced by Venezuelan immigrants in New York City amid changing political dynamics.
A personal story about how Claudia and Jorge met in Mexico City in 1990, starting with a chance encounter at university.
This episode explores the Chinese diaspora in Costa Rica through the story of Nicole Chi Amen, whose grandparents emigrated from China in the 1950s.
A woman recounts how a childhood shopping trip in Argentina led to her first realization of being fat and the societal exclusion that followed.
This episode begins with a story about a Hispanic family in New Mexico during the 1940s, setting up a narrative about land, identity, and unexpected military visits.
A mother observes her toddler son's fascination with a neighbor girl, leading to a reflection on early childhood behavior and language development.