Choose a real Spanish-language article or video, prepare the context and vocabulary in English, then continue with the original publisher.
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“Los puertos no preguntan. Reciben.”: Patrizia Gallo debuts with her first short-story collection
Delfino.cr · 10 min preparation
Costa Rican writer and visual artist Patrizia Gallo presented her first individual short-story collection, Los puertos no preguntan. Reciben., at the Fiesta de la Lectura Costa Rica on September 13, 2026. The volume contains 16 stories combining psychological suspense, mystery, drama and introspection.
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West Bank: Palestinian parents fear rising attacks on schools
BBC Mundo · 12 min preparation
The BBC publisher’s available summary describes growing concern among Palestinian parents and school staff over attacks affecting schools in the occupied West Bank. It mentions a school director installing new barbed-wire fencing after three students were reported killed during the year.
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Twelve countries take trade measures against products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank
France 24 Español · 12 min preparation
Twelve countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Canada, announced trade measures targeting products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, according to the publisher’s available summary. The initiative is presented as a response to settlement expansion and increased violence by settlers against Palestinians.
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De la Espriella and Rubio discuss Venezuela's stability and seal energy agreements
TalCual · 12 min preparation
De la Espriella and Marco Rubio discussed the stability of Venezuela while their delegations signed two strategic energy agreements in Barranquilla, according to the publisher’s available summary. The agreements were described as supporting critical-mineral projects and civil nuclear-energy technology.
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Venezuela in focus: Colombia offers cooperation to protect regional stability
Efecto Cocuyo · 12 min preparation
Colombia’s president said his government would work with the United States on efforts aimed at regional stability and deeper cooperation along the border with Venezuela. The statement linked events in Venezuela to security, migration, smuggling, armed groups and energy in Colombia.
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Pressure mounts in Ceuta as the transfer of migrant minors to Andalusia is delayed
elDiario.es · 14 min preparation
Ceuta had not activated an agreement with Andalusia for transferring unaccompanied migrant minors even as local reception resources were under severe pressure. The article connects the delay with administrative uncertainty, humanitarian concerns and a wider political dispute over how the recent mass entry should be classified.
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PISA and the Great Recession: an analysis traces the impact on families and schools
elDiario.es · 14 min preparation
This opinion article argues that Spain’s disappointing PISA results should not be explained by technology alone. It emphasizes that the students tested grew up during the long aftermath of the Great Recession, when many families were under economic pressure and education systems experienced spending cuts.
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Peru joins the Shield of the Americas: the proposal announced by Marco Rubio
France 24 Español · 12 min preparation
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Peru’s integration into the Shield of the Americas during a regional tour, according to the publisher’s available summary. The alliance is described as a Washington-led initiative focused on drug trafficking and transnational crime.
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Digital payments reshape the e-commerce shopping experience
Cenital · 12 min preparation
The article explains why payment has become a central part of the e-commerce customer journey rather than simply the final step of a sale. It describes how businesses can integrate cards, digital wallets, QR payments, payment links and online-store tools while keeping the buying process simple.
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Why Arévalo should not defend Gerardo Aguirre
Plaza Pública · 12 min preparation
The publisher’s available summary presents a Plaza Pública opinion piece arguing that President Bernardo Arévalo should not defend Gerardo Aguirre. It says renewed public and media scrutiny followed a recent scandal and points to controversies involving Aguirre in Guatemala’s federated sports institutions since at least 2013.
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False claims and women soldiers as bait: how a pro-Russian network operates
BBC Mundo · 13 min preparation
the publisher’s available summary describes a pro-Russian propaganda network on Telegram that allegedly uses false rape claims and images of Ukrainian servicewomen to attract large audiences. The story appears to examine how emotionally charged sexual-violence narratives are used to pull users into wider pro-war propaganda ecosystems.
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Beyond the Strait of Hormuz, Iran expands its maritime restrictions
France 24 Español · 11 min preparation
Iran announced a new restricted maritime zone beyond the Strait of Hormuz, according to the publisher’s available summary. The measure would require authorization for vessels entering the area and could increase tensions around one of the world's most important energy corridors.
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A foreign fishing fleet near Rapa Nui is under watch as Chile monitors its movements
El País · 12 min preparation
Chile’s navy reported detecting foreign fishing vessels operating near Easter Island/Rapa Nui. The operation took place outside Chile’s Exclusive Economic Zone but within an area where Chile carries out maritime surveillance responsibilities.
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“Y por brújula, un reloj”: a poetry book read as a book, instructions and ritual
Plaza Pública · 13 min preparation
The essay reflects on how to present and interpret Vania Vargas’s recent poetry book, comparing the act of introducing it with the deliberately minimal gesture surrounding Yoko Ono’s “Grapefruit”. It treats the book not simply as a collection of poems but as an object of instructions, ritual and literary experience.
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Ten years after her death, a TV special revisits Rita Barberá
El País · 11 min preparation
The article reviews a two-part Salvados television special about Rita Barberá, who served as mayor of Valencia for 24 years. It describes how the programme combines testimony from political allies, opponents, journalists and neighborhood representatives to revisit both her popularity and the controversies associated with her time in office.
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Against ten-man Sevilla, Espanyol salvage a draw
El País · 9 min preparation
Espanyol drew 1–1 with Sevilla after Marcos Fernández scored from the rebound of his own header in the 98th minute. Sevilla had played with ten men from the 55th minute, took the lead through debutant Lucas Stassin in the 84th and nearly held on after goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos made crucial late saves.
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What an analysis reveals about the limits of strategies to stop the far right
El País · 12 min preparation
In this opinion column, Marc Bassets argues that familiar strategies for containing Europe’s far right have not stopped its electoral growth. Using AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt as the immediate example, he examines the limits of copying far-right policies, relying on political isolation and invoking historical memory without also addressing present-day concerns.
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Mexico seeks to join Arizona's semiconductor supply chain: what is at stake
El País · 10 min preparation
The article examines Mexico’s effort to join the semiconductor supply chain developing around Arizona. It describes opportunities in advanced packaging, testing, design and validation, while stressing that success would require specialized training, regulatory certainty, reliable clean energy and long-term investment.
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The dilemma facing Ecuador in the war on drug trafficking
Plan V · 14 min preparation
This opinion article argues that decades of militarized and security-focused anti-drug policies in Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador have failed to reduce the underlying drug economy. The author contrasts different strategies and presents the problem as a broader social and economic challenge rather than only a criminal one.
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Spanglish, migration and belonging: a love letter about a cross-border relationship
Plaza Pública · 14 min preparation
In this personal essay, a Guatemalan writer addresses an American partner in a deliberately mixed Spanish-English voice. Their relationship becomes a way to think about migration, passports, political privilege, memory, language and the unequal meanings a border can have for different people.
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Milei threatened sanctions against companies in the Malvinas. The UK responded this way.
CNN en Español · 12 min preparation
Argentina’s government says it will speed up sanctions against companies involved in oil projects around the Falkland Islands/Malvinas without Argentine authorization. President Javier Milei also announced plans for a naval base in Tierra del Fuego, while the article includes responses from Rockhopper Exploration and the UK government.
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Venezuela and the Amazon on two wheels: a motorcycle journey
Plan V · 13 min preparation
This travel chronicle follows two Ecuadorian motorcyclists through Venezuela and into Brazil, describing hospitality, difficult roads, mining zones and life along the Amazon. The second half becomes a more personal account of separation, travel by river and the sense of scale and vulnerability produced by the Amazon landscape.
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New research reveals who is more vulnerable to health misinformation
Chequeado · 11 min preparation
Chequeado reports that vulnerability to health misinformation is shaped more by beliefs, trust and information-literacy skills than by a single demographic profile. In the study, participants classified 65.1% of headlines correctly on average, and the most frequent error was rejecting true information rather than accepting false information.
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A sunrise lasting years: how HD 80606 b challenges our idea of time
Agencia SINC · 12 min preparation
The publisher’s available summary introduces HD 80606 b as an exoplanet whose day-night cycle can challenge familiar ideas about time. It emphasizes that outside the Solar System, the concept of a 'day' can behave very differently from the regular cycle experienced on Earth.
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Morocco will rename the Tiznit-Dakhla highway “Donald J. Trump Highway”
Agencia IP · 11 min preparation
Morocco announced that the Tiznit-Dakhla expressway would be renamed Donald J. Trump Highway, according to the publisher’s available summary. The decision was presented as a symbol of friendship between Morocco and the United States and of the relationship between their leaders.
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AI detects an 'orphan' black hole while it devours a star
Agencia SINC · 12 min preparation
The publisher’s available summary describes an artificial-intelligence-assisted discovery of an 'orphan' black hole involved in a tidal disruption event. It says such events had previously been observed mainly in galactic centers, while the new observations place one farther from the nucleus.
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The double earthquake that shook Venezuela, told through images
Noticias RCN · 7 min preparation
Noticias RCN presents images that it says captured a double earthquake affecting Venezuela. This short guide prepares basic disaster-reporting vocabulary while keeping the event description attributed to the source.
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Antioquia sees an increase in entry refusals linked to sex tourism
Noticias Caracol · 8 min preparation
Noticias Caracol reports an increase in foreign travelers refused entry amid suspected links to sex tourism, with Antioquia accounting for many recorded cases. The report attributes the figures and screening actions to Colombian migration authorities.
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Peru's political crisis: eight presidents in ten years
FRANCE 24 Español · 8 min preparation
FRANCE 24 Español presents a rapid chronology of Peru's presidential turnover over roughly a decade. It begins with Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's 2018 resignation and reviews the institutional mechanisms involved in later changes of government.
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A reconstruction recreates the operation to capture Nicolás Maduro
Meganoticias · 9 min preparation
Meganoticias presents an AI-generated reconstruction of what it describes as a military operation involving Nicolás Maduro and his wife. This guide focuses on the report's vocabulary and keeps its account explicitly attributed to the publisher.
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Sex tourism in Medellín: the risks of exploitation behind the phenomenon
EL TIEMPO · 8 min preparation
This brief EL TIEMPO report examines the troubling side of tourism in Medellín, including services promoted to foreign visitors and risks connected with exploitation. The guide treats the subject as a public-safety and human-rights issue.
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They’re extraterrestrials: Loreto residents report strange beings that attack at night
RPP Noticias · 12 min preparation
Members of the Ikitu community in Alto Nanay, Loreto, reported frightening nocturnal encounters with unidentified figures and asked authorities for protection. The article presents the residents’ claims while also recording alternative local explanations and the lack of corresponding medical records at the regional health authority.
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What the universe is made of: the Higgs boson and the “God particle”
BBC News Mundo · 11 min preparation
This BBC News Mundo video explains why the Higgs boson matters to the Standard Model of particle physics and to scientists’ understanding of mass. It also gives learners practice with scientific definitions, metaphors and carefully qualified explanations.
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Drug-trafficking map: this is how drug cartels are distributed across Mexico
MILENIO · 9 min preparation
This featured MILENIO explainer describes how organized-crime groups were reported to be distributed across Mexican states when the video was published in 2021. Treat the map as a dated media snapshot rather than a current or permanent territorial picture.
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Alberto Fernández and the controversial remark about Mexicans, Brazilians and ships from Europe
LA NACION · 16 min preparation
During a 2021 visit by Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez, Argentine president Alberto Fernández made a controversial remark contrasting the supposed origins of Mexicans, Brazilians and Argentines. Fernández attributed the idea to Mexican writer Octavio Paz, but LA NACION noted that his wording did not match the phrase commonly attributed to Paz and was closer to lyrics by Argentine musician Litto Nebbia.
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The psychologist who strangled the so-called Lima dismemberer during an interrogation and later sought to become a presidential candidate
Infobae · 15 min preparation
Infobae reconstructs the extraordinary story of Mario Poggi, a psychologist and criminologist brought into a 1986 Lima police investigation to profile and question Ángel Díaz Balbín. Poggi killed the handcuffed suspect during an interrogation, was sentenced to prison, and years later became a highly visible and eccentric public figure.
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Quantum physics explained in under five minutes: the essential ideas
BBC News Mundo · 10 min preparation
This short BBC News Mundo explainer introduces the unusual behavior studied by quantum physics and contrasts it with the everyday intuitions of classical physics. It gives Spanish learners a compact science-listening exercise with clear visual support.
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What fractals are—and how they can help us understand the universe in a new way
BBC News Mundo · 9 min preparation
This BBC News Mundo video introduces fractals as mathematical patterns that repeat at different scales and appear in both models and natural forms. Its strong visual examples make it particularly suitable for Spanish listening practice.
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What is infinity? A four-minute guide to help you understand it
BBC News Mundo · 9 min preparation
This short BBC News Mundo video asks what infinity really means and why it is more complicated than simply describing an extremely large number. It offers a compact listening exercise built around examples, quantities and limits.
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Why Einstein’s theory of relativity was so revolutionary
BBC News Mundo · 10 min preparation
This BBC News Mundo explainer introduces Einstein’s theory of relativity and explains why it changed the way scientists understand space, time and gravity. The video is short enough for focused listening while still presenting several connected scientific ideas.
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