As novelist and poet Giaconda Belli recently observed, Nicaraguan journalism has lost an “irreplaceable” member of its profession, a figure who brought commitment, courage, and the highest standards of integrity to his vocation.

Juan José Campanella was twenty-four years old when he first saw Herb Gardner’s play I’m Not Rappaport on Broadway. After repeating the experience twice, he decided to adapt it for the screen, given that he regarded it as a play whose idiosyncrasies would resonate with an Argentine audience, perhaps even more powerfully than with an

Alborada, or Dawn, a new feature film directed by cineaste Paula Heredia, recently premiered at the Suchitoto International Film Festival in the filmmaker’s native country of El Salvador.