WVIK Radio Ambulante Podcast

Radio Ambulante is a Spanish-language narrative journalism project, telling uniquely Latin American stories. Founded in 2011 by award-winning novelist Daniel Alarcón and entrepreneur Carolina Guerrero, Radio Ambulante stories are nuanced, engaging, funny, moving, and they are told in Spanish, offering a fresh view of Latinos and Latin Americans across the region. They've produced more than 60 episodes from more than 20 countries, and partnered with English-language outlets like Planet Money, Radiolab, The New York Times Magazine and This American Life.

NPR expects collaborations between Radio Ambulante and other NPR podcasts like Code Switch, Alt.Latino, Embedded and Latino USA, as well as having regular presence in our news magazines. This includes a segment slated for the week of November 21 on All Things Considered.

Launch Episode, November 22

• There are no thieves in this town, Camila Segura
  Bogotá, Colombia
  This is the story about the theft and the speedy recovery (only 6 days later) of a signed first edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the International Book Fair in Bogotá in 2015. It's fair to say that many crimes are not resolved this quickly in Colombia -- so why did the police act so swiftly to recover a book? And why would the theft of a single book mean so much to a country ridden with violence?