“Any debate concerning the relation between intellectuals and power could be shut down in ten seconds by pointing out that Martin Heidegger, probably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, joined the Nazi Party.”

Óscar Collazos, one of the last surviving members of the famed Colombian Boom generation of writers, died last May after being diagnosed nearly a year ago with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

It has been over three months since opening at Colombia’s National Theater, but Labio de Liebre (Harelip), a tragicomic political drama written, directed, and starring Fabio Rubiano in association with the Teatro Petra, continues to play to packed houses with each performance.

Archaeologists on site in the Peruvian rainforest have unearthed two silver ceremonial cups most likely interred during the sixteenth century.