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Spanish Audio Lesson – La Iglesia Católica y el gobierno venezolano.

¡Hola Amigos de Web Spanish! En esta oportunidad, vamos a hablar sobre la actual relación de la Iglesia Católica en Venezuela y el gobierno de ese país. Una relación complicada desde hace algunos años y...

Spanish Audio Lesson – Pareja presidencial de Guatemala se divorcia

Hi Friends, today our Spanish audio lesson is of the intermediate level and informs us about the controversy surrounding the recent divorce between Alvaro Colom, the current president of Guatemala, and...

Spanish Audio Lesson – Machu Picchu y la Universidad de Yale, 100 años después.

Since we first talked about this issue in a Spanish lesson in January, there have been some important developments. Probably the most important is that Yale University has shipped the first batch of Machu...

Spanish Audio Lesson – Wikileaks y los candidatos presidenciales en Perú

Our Spanish audio lesson this week deals with the infamous “wikileaks”, a new word that has entered into the informal Spanish lexicon in the same way it has entered into other languages around the...

Spanish Audio Lesson – Palestina

Few areas of the world generate as much controversy as the Middle East, and in particular the relationship between Israel and Palestine, and Palestine and the rest of the world. In an interesting move,...

Web Spanish – Behind The Scenes – María Vera

The goal of our Spanish audio lessons is to take a recent current event that we consider to be important and relevant in Latin America, and to write it up and record it in Spanish using simple, easy to...

Spanish Audio Lesson – Machu Picchu and Yale University

Our Spanish lesson this week is an audio recording about the world famous archeological site Machu Picchu, located in the Peruvian highlands. This mountain-top fortress made world headlines when it was...

Mundo Hispano – Navidad en Hispanoamérica

If you are from the Northern Hemisphere, Christmas in South America takes a little getting used to: instead of shorter, colder days and building snowmen, it is all about longer, warmer days and perhaps...

Mundo Hispano – 30 ciudades más dinámicas del mundo después de la recesión

This Spanish lesson deals with the aftermath of the most recent economic crisis, and how a new cohort of cities has been identified as “the most dynamic in the world” based on the growth of their...

Mundo Hispano – Nuevos cambios ortográficos en la lengua española

The following information falls under the “you need to be cruel to be kind” category. That´s right….. just when you thought you were making progress learning Spanish, the Powers That Be...

Mundo Hispano – Las Maras, violencia en El Salvador

Our Spanish audio lesson this week casts a glance at the underbelly of society where the world is upside down – where stealing is good, violence is encouraged, and murderers are honored and respected up...

Mundo Hispano – Enterrados vivos

Buried alive! You are employed as a miner and disaster strikes, sealing you off from the world above you. This is normally the kind of accident that promises a slow, torturous death. It´s almost...

Mundo Hispano – Los Mapuches de Chile

Chileans marked their bicentennial of independence in September, and pretty much everyone was celebrating except Chile´s first nations peoples, particularly the Mapuche. In this week’s Spanish audio...

Mundo Hispano – Inmigración ilegal

A recent massacre of illegal immigrants on the Mexican border has garnered global media attention due to the number of innocent latinos brutally assassinated by members of a Mexican gang. It was another...

Mundo Hispano – Economía cubana, las declaraciones de Fidel Castro

Love him or hate him, but there is no single person who symbolizes communism in Latin America as does Fidel Castro, and even though Fidel stepped down from the presidency of Cuba several years ago, his...

Mundo Hispano – Santa Rosa de Lima

For me, it was just another long weekend, but for devout Catholics, the holiday celebrating Santa Rosa de Lima is one of the most important dates of the year. Listen to this Spanish audio lesson to learn more...

Mundo Hispano – Lori Berenson

In the 1980′s and 1990′s, Peru was rocked by violent civil unrest that left over 60,000 people dead. The two terrorist movements behind the insurgency were the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining...

Mundo Hispano – El cazador de inmigrantes

Few issues have become more polemic in the United States these days than the topic of illegal immigration. Arizona, with its long border with Mexico, is now at the center of the storm as politicians scramble...

Mundo Hispano – Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Terrorist or revolutionary? Che Guevara is one of the most emblematic figures from the 20th century, and even today, 42 years after his death at the hands of the Bolivian military, he continues to inspire...

Mundo Hispano – Hallan fardo funerario de 1200 años en el norte de Perú

In this weeks Spanish audio lesson, Maria Vera looks at a stunning new archeological discovery in northern Peru. Archeologist have uncovered a high-ranking member of the Sicán culture, and it is a race...