Known for decades as an eloquent and impassioned spokesman for the Latin American left, the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has died in Montevideo at age 74 after suffering a long bout with lung cancer. The author of the landmark 1971 polemic The Open Veins of Latin America, considered by many leftists as one of the

Since his death on April 17 last year, Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez is now more alive than ever. The past twelve months have witnessed an avalanche of articles dedicated to the man and his work, innumerable tributes from journalists and filmmakers, and the republication of his writings at home and abroad.

French director Laurent Cantet’s feature film Return to Ithaca is scheduled to premiere in Havana in May as part of Cuba’s fifteenth French Film Festival.