Carlos Flores Marini was an architect and advocate of Mexican art; Neé Emelia Pérez Castellanos, better known as Ninón Sevilla, was born in Havana, Cuba, and started out to be a missionary nun, but instead followed her love of dancing and acting.

The play “The Captive,” which was performed in Lima, was investigated the by anti-terror police who alleged that it is a work of apology for the “subversive group” Sendero Luminoso, while its author says it is a story and a work of fiction.

Twenty-five years after the murder of the Jesuits in El Salvador the case still has a powerful presence, and will now make it to the small screen through the miniseries Cortar el puente.