No doubt June will prove to be a record-breaker, heat-wise, but the month has also seen some fine new albums surfacing. I've ...

Summer comes but once a year... and thank heavens for that. Quite apart from my prezidential affairs of state, I've been so ...

This year’s BIME Bogotá was less about spectacle and more about substance. In between panels, one-on-one conversations, and ...

Women's health issues have become increasingly prominent on the international stage. One of the key topics of interest to ...

If your tía still insists on carrying groceries for the entire block or your tío is convinced he can still fix the roof ...

Latin American music in the last decade has swept the world with its infectious rhythms, beautiful lyrics, and melodies that ...

A toxic agro-economy: big ag fuels public health disasters in Argentina September 2023 marked the fourth anniversary of the 2019 explosion in Mercedes, Argentina, of an illegal agrochemical deposit ...

This affecting moment occurred when Fainguelernt was just ten years old – long before she became Ana Frango Elétrico (Ana Electric Chicken), the 23-year-old wunderkind whose 2019 sophomore album ...

If Freud had a sister that was writing about the security of young girls in Ecuador, perhaps that piece might have turned out close to Jawbone. Or alternatively, perhaps this book is like the setting ...

Colombia’s Meridian Brothers are up to their usual tricks with a delirious salsa pastiche. For their latest album they have partnered up with El Grupo Renacimiento, a supposedly-legendary salsa dura ...

In Latin America and the Caribbean, music and dance are important parts of daily life. In Havana and Rio, people tell stories by just dancing. The dances show history and culture, and they bring ...

Alex Pritz’s feature debut documentary The Territory (Brazil/Denmark/USA, 2022) depicts the Indigenous resistance to land invasion in the Brazilian Amazon. This subject matter is widely known. It has ...