Americas Now Podcast

June 25, 2025

UN Insider: The UN’s Work In Haiti

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:51 — 20.5MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSHaiti has been gripped by increasing gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Nearly 1.3 million people have been forced to flee and seek […]

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June 25, 2025

The Nameless

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:54 — 22.5MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSFor years, countless migrants have risked everything trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. But some never make it and meet a tragic ending. A number of those who […]

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June 25, 2025

Deportations: From North To South

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:32 — 45.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Hispanic communities in the U.S. are on edge, bracing for raids by federal authorities looking to deport undocumented immigrants. For decades, the flow of migration in the […]

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June 25, 2025

A conversation with Isabel Allende

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:37 — 31.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSHer debut novel “The House of the Spirits” sold over 70 million copies and was translated to more than 20 languages. Chilean best-selling author Isabel Allende has enchanted readers […]

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May 10, 2024

Wrongfully Convicted

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:52 — 33.6MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSSince 1989, over 3,000 people have been exonerated from prison sentences in the United States after evidence proved they were innocent. But how hard is it for those […]

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May 9, 2024

White Hands Choir

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:34 — 20.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSImagine a choir where some singers cannot see and others cannot hear. That’s the concept of a unique project in Venezuela, which shows how – when pre-conceptions are […]

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May 9, 2024

Climate-Forced Indigenous Migration

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:04 — 28.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSNavajo Nation people are being forced out. The same is happening in Central America, where the rainy season has become shorter and unpredictable. Farmers, most of whom are […]

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May 9, 2024

Venezuelan Students Crossing

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:39 — 25.0MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSEvery morning…dozens of kids in western Venezuela leave their homes before 5-am — to embark on an adventurous journey to school. And it’s not just any school… it’s on the […]

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May 31, 2023

Americas Now: The Female Pioneers of Colombia’s Vallenato Music

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:11 — 24.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSVallenato is likely Colombia’s most popular musical genre and part of the country’s identity. Played with an accordion, it’s a combination of African, Indigenous and European sounds. Traditionally, the […]

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May 24, 2023

Americas Now: Inside Colombia’s largest drug cartel

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:54 — 34.8MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSColombia is the world’s largest cocaine producer and the cultivation of coca plants, the main ingredient of the drug, is increasing. Elaine Reyes talks to correspondent Toby Muse, […]

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May 10, 2023

Americas Now: Chocolate: A $10 billion business that begins with cacao

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:08 — 17.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSMost people associate chocolate with the chocolatiers of Europe. But the main ingredient for chocolate, cacao, comes from Latin America and Africa. Director-Producer Armando Guerra joins anchor Elaine […]

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April 21, 2023

Americas Now: Climate Change Threatens Marine Life in Florida

Podcast (americasnow): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:59 — 26.8MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSAccording to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, 2022 was one of the hottest years on record. Some scientists believe Florida is among the most vulnerable states when […]

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July 2, 2021

The Americas Now Podcast

Correspondents traveling from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego deconstruct the stories that impacted them the most. Presented by Elaine Reyes, the Americas Now Podcast takes you to memorable places and introduces you to extraordinary people around the map. This is a podcast for in-depth reporting enthusiasts with a taste for Latin American affairs and human stories.

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