Natalie Alcoba

Buenos Aires

Journalist at Freelance

journalist/periodista in Argentina • NYTimes, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, others. @pulitzercenter grantee • 🇦🇷🇨🇦

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Articles

Sembrar palabras en tiempos de ajuste: la resistencia que florece en La Chicharra, una radio comunitaria de Goya

1 week ago | eldiarioar.com | Natalie Alcoba |Anita Pouchard Serra

Se enciende una radio y se abren caminos. Un mate en la mesa. Dos micrófonos prendidos. Del otro lado del vidrio, una compañera tuneando los niveles de audio. “Si hay algo que tenemos seguro, es que la salida es comunitaria,” dice Eladia Fernández, con su nenita de dos años jugando entre sus piernas. Este es un cierre de ciclo de un programa impulsado a pulmón, como tantas otras iniciativas que nacen de colectivos humildes en la ciudad de Goya.
Uruguay’s mourning for a rebel-turned-president brings decades of upheaval into perspective

3 weeks ago | theglobeandmail.com | Natalie Alcoba
Canada‘s largest battery storage farm just opened - and it’s Indigenous-led

3 weeks ago | corporateknights.com | Natalie Alcoba

This is not your average plot of southwestern Ontario farmland. In May, a 10-acre tract of land in Haldimand County officially turned into Canada’s largest grid-scale battery storage facility, and one of the largest in the world. Now, 278 lithium-ion battery units are drawing and storing surplus power from Ontario’s electricity grid, doubling the province’s energy storage capacity to 475 megawatts and providing a bolstered electrical backbone to surging demand.
Pope Francis focused on ‘this world.’ He angered some, and inspired many others.

1 month ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Dominique Soguel |Erika Page |Natalie Alcoba

Beatriz Sanabria was on her way to a Buenos Aires soup kitchen when she saw the words painted under a highway overpass in a new light. Her neighborhood, Barrio 31, a low-income community on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, is one where the late Pope Francis once tended to parishioners before becoming Latin America’s first pontiff in 2013. “Caring for the neighborhood and ourselves is our commitment,” read one message.
Pope Francis focused on ‘this world.’ He angered some, and inspired many others.

1 month ago | csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Natalie Alcoba |Erika Page |Dominique Soguel

Beatriz Sanabria was on her way to a Buenos Aires soup kitchen when she saw the words painted under a highway overpass in a new light. Her neighborhood, Barrio 31, a low-income community on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, is one where the late Pope Francis once tended to parishioners before becoming Latin America’s first pontiff in 2013. “Caring for the neighborhood and ourselves is our commitment,” read one message.
Argentines mourn ‘humble’ pope and native son

1 month ago | afr.com | Natalie Alcoba |Lucía Cholakian Herrera |Lucia Herrera |Daniel Politi

Natalie Alcoba, Lucía Cholakian Herrera and Daniel PolitiApr 22, 2025 – 3.53pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Buenos Aires | Little by little, the church pews of Argentina filled up on Monday (Tuesday AEST). Catholics woke up after a weekend filled with Easter celebrations to the news that Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff and a native son, had died.
How China's energy transition engine is driving change in the Global South

1 month ago | corporateknights.com | Natalie Alcoba

It had been 30 years since a train ran through a stretch of Argentina’s Quebrada de Humahuaca. The mountainous region in the northern province of Jujuy is known for its enchanting, multicoloured rockscape and the chain of settlements that hug the rugged valley. In 1993, a diesel locomotive ceased to operate. But last year, after track upgrades and a concerted effort from local politicians, a gleaming solar-powered battery train made its maiden run.
Ci rimettono le donne

2 months ago | internazionale.it | Natalie Alcoba

Johana Foenzalida fuma una sigaretta e guarda verso il basso: siamo in uno degli aridi altipiani che circondano la città di Neuquén. In lontananza, su un terreno che un tempo era una discarica, c’è la sua casa. È stata costruita appena due anni fa: ha due camere da letto, un bagno, una cucina, una sala da pranzo e un altro piccolo bagno per gli ospiti. Lei ha dipinto le pareti color lavanda, azzurro e giallo. E fuori ha piantato tre alberi.
El "no hay plata" de Milei pone en peligro los hogares de mujeres víctimas de violencia de género en Neuquén

2 months ago | eldiarioar.com | Natalie Alcoba |Anita Pouchard Serra |Alejandro Rebossio |Natalia Laube

Johana Foenzalida fuma un pucho y mira para abajo, desde una de las áridas mesetas que abrazan Neuquén capital. A la distancia, en tierras que habían sido un basural, está su casita, un duplex de apenas dos años que tiene dos habitaciones, un baño y antebaño, cocina, comedor y un baño de visita. También tiene paredes que ella pintó de colores lavanda, aqua y maíz. Y tres árboles que ella plantó.
Blocking the Clinics — The Dial

2 months ago | thedial.world | Anita Pouchard Serra |Natalie Alcoba

The woman I met at the abortion rights rally outside a hospital on the outskirts of Buenos Aires was apprehensive. She had lost her job in the health ministry in early 2024, as part of a wave of government layoffs instigated by the newly elected Argentina president, Javier Milei. She was reinstated a few months later but advised to keep a low profile — no more speaking to the press over reproductive rights.