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Álvaro Céspedes
I am a journalist, producer, and teacher specializing in narrative and audio storytelling. For more than a decade, I’ve worked at the intersection of research on politics, culture, and the environment, and the ways these issues connect to music, identity, and territory. In doing so, I aim to reveal the tensions between power, inequality, and memory in Latin America.
I have produced and edited narrative journalism in both Spanish and English for outlets such as El Hilo, iHeart’s My Cultura Podcast Network, Spotify, Gatopardo, among many others. I also founded and currently direct Delirios Crónicos, a documentary audio project for Ibero 90.9, where we tell stories about community resilience, climate change, culture, and social justice. The first episode of this journalistic project was recognized with the SONAR Award for Best Audio Narration in 2024.
I hold a master’s degree in Journalism and Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, where I developed a comparative perspective that bridges academic research with journalistic practice. I currently teach Contemporary Latin American History at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
Mi trabajo
Sacred Scandal: The many secrets of Marcial Maciel
Exile Content Studio
Exile Content Studio
The Many Secrets of Marcial Maciel is a gripping investigative podcast uncovering the shocking life and crimes of Marcial Maciel, the founder and former leader of the Legion of Christ. Praised as a holy figure, Marcial Maciel lived a life of abuse, manipulation, and deception. Hosted by Elena Sada, a survivor and former high-ranking member of the organization, this series explores Maciel's rise to power, his extensive abuse, and his eventual downfall.

Un bosque bajo el agua
Delirios Crónicos
Delirios Crónicos
El Bosque, a small community on the coast of Tabasco, no longer exists. The cause: climate change. In this story, we follow Lupe Cobos, a resident who refuses to leave her land, while the rest of her neighbors have been relocated to a nearby community. The residents of El Bosque are the first to be officially recognized as climate-displaced people in Mexico, but they know they won’t be the last.

Juntos llegamos más lejos
Delirios Crónicos
Delirios Crónicos
According to its residents, Iztapalapa is the most dangerous borough in Mexico City. But within it lies Acapatzingo, a community that’s doing things differently. There, people feel safe—creating a striking contrast with the rest of the borough.

Sacred Scandal: Nation of Saints
Exile Content Studio
Exile Content Studio
In 1980, one man held together a fragile peace in the tiny nation of El Salvador: Archbishop Oscar Romero. When he is brutally and publicly assassinated on the pulpit, his murder starts a war that would leave 75,000 dead, and a million more displaced around the globe. Sacred Scandal season 3, Nation of Saints, follows host Jasmine Romero as she uncovers the holy war that followed the Archbishop's death, and led to an unsolved murder in her own family.

La noche que Acapulco murió
Delirios Crónicos
Delirios Crónicos
La madrugada del 25 de octubre de 2023, el puerto de Acapulco fue devastado por el huracán Otis. Ulises Villanueva, un marinero encargado de cuidar una embarcación privada de lujo, fue sorprendido por los vientos y quedó náufrago durante horas, a la deriva de la tormento. Este episodio ganó el premio SONAR 2024 a mejor narración sonora.
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Transportista: ¿Quién mató al Capitán Coral?
Exile Content Studio
Exile Content Studio
Beto Coral is the son of the war on drugs in Colombia. Beto shares the story of the much-anticipated peace that would follow Pablo Escobar’s death all those years ago...the story of how peace never truly arrived for his family, given that his father, el Capitán Humberto Coral (member of the Search Block that killed Escobar), was murdered a few months after the final operation against the drug trafficker in Medellin. Transportista: Who Killed Captain Coral? is hosted by Exile producer Alvaro Cespedes and is available in both English and Spanish.

Las madres del desierto
El Hilo
El Hilo
En México, donde desaparecen 19 personas al día, un grupo de madres de desaparecidos se plantó esta semana frente a las oficinas del Alto Comisionado de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas para denunciar la inacción del Estado mexicano. Esta semana vamos a Sonora, donde una madre empezó a transmitir por Facebook sus salidas al desierto para buscar a sus hijos, y empujó a muchas otras a perder el miedo y unirse a ella para tratar de obtener las respuestas que nunca les han dado las autoridades.

En tu pedido va mi vida
El Hilo
El Hilo
Con la pandemia, los repartidores que trabajan para aplicaciones como Uber Eats, Rappi o Glovo se han vuelto más esenciales que nunca. La precariedad de sus condiciones de trabajo, en vez de aislarlos, ha sido el origen de un movimiento laboral internacional e inédito.

¿Qué tranza mi Bubble?
Hybe Latin America
Hybe Latin America
Un podcast en el que tu nuevo actor favorito, Alex Lago, conocido como el Bubble Gómez del VGLY Crew, se sienta a conversar con todo aquel que esté haciendo magia dentro y fuera de la serie de HBO, VGLY. Conoce los detalles más íntimos, cagados y representativos de artistas, actores, diseñadores y creadores que le dieron vida y le inyectan flow al universo de VGLY. ¡Acompaña la temporada 2 de esta serie con nuestro podcast! Alex Lago, el actor detrás de Bubble Gómez, es uno de los personajes más queridos del VGLY crew. En la ficción, Bubble es un chilango callejero, astuto y con labia, criado en la selva de concreto que es la CDMX. Pero en la vida real, Alex no se queda atrás: carismático, sin pelos en la lengua y con ese don para hacer que cualquiera se suelte en la entrevista.

Todo en el verso
Hybe Latin America
Hybe Latin America
El podcast donde el K-pop y la comunidad latina se encuentran. Conducido por Sissi y Valeria, exploramos las últimas noticias, analizamos Weverse y compartimos historias que acercan a lxs fans con la industria. Si K-pop es tu pasión, aquí tienes tu espacio. ¡Bienvenidxs a TODO EN EL VERSO!

The Unlikely Hero of El Bosque
Sea Change - New Orleans Public Radio
Sea Change - New Orleans Public Radio
El Bosque, Mexico, a tiny fishing village on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, is quickly vanishing into the sea. In this episode, we journey to El Bosque to meet the town’s most unlikely hero—one person determined to fight for a future as her neighbors flee the encroaching waves.

El Flow: Second Season
Exile Content Studio
Exile Content Studio
El Flow tells the story of reggaeton, its most emblematic artists, and the secrets of how the genre’s top hits were made. It’s a story of migration, expression, evolution, sexuality, rebellion, and repression. Since its beginning, the genre has had one constant; movement. From Panama to Puerto Rico, from Boston to Medellin, from Mexico to Brazil. There has always been someone willing to raise their hand and take the lead. As a result, reggaeton evolved as a merger of Pan-American musical influences, which in turn helped explode its appeal. Now, It’s time to look back at how we got here.

El Flow: First Season
Exile Content Studio
Exile Content Studio
El Flow tells the story of reggaeton, its most emblematic artists, and the secrets of how the genre’s top hits were made. It’s a story of migration, expression, evolution, sexuality, rebellion, and repression. Since its beginning, the genre has had one constant; movement. From Panama to Puerto Rico, from Boston to Medellin, from Mexico to Brazil. There has always been someone willing to raise their hand and take the lead. As a result, reggaeton evolved as a merger of Pan-American musical influences, which in turn helped explode its appeal. Now, It’s time to look back at how we got here.

Paloma Contreras Lomas: entre sombreros, sindicatos y fantasmas
Nexos
Nexos
Con sus esculturas, dibujos, instalaciones y películas que mezclan el humor absurdista con la crítica política mordaz, Paloma Contreras Lomas se ha revelado como una de las artistas jóvenes más emocionantes de México. Álvaro Céspedes visita su estudio y la galería donde expone para retratarla de perfil.
Viajé al corazón de la paranoia norteamericana: un rally de Donald Trump
VICE
VICE
«Trump cambia de estrategia para contrarrestar su caída en las encuestas», era el encabezado de la nota que leí este lunes en el periódico The Dallas Morning News. Éste era un breve recuento sobre la manera en que Donald Trump, en el marco de un giro en su campaña después de caer en las encuestas ante Hillary Clinton, ha pasado de la errática y exagerada improvisación en sus discursos, a leerlos en un prompter durante sus actos de campaña.