Photojournalist Juanjo Fernández has traveled to the area around Saramurillo, Peru on several occasions to cover conflicts over oil spills. Now, after finding a solution for children to start reading, he is in this small community to help them collect books for a new library.

“We are alive and just getting better,” declared Uruguayan cumbia pop band Mano Arriba, after reading in a national newspaper that their genre of music is dead.

“We propose independence,” declared film director and producer Osvaldo Ortíz, “for the very essence of the audiovisual industry. We need an institute formed by people who are inside the industry, and with a link to the State.”

Nobel Prize-winning author and giant in the world of arts and letters, Mario Vargas Llosa recently published La llamada de la tribu (The Call of the Tribe) a book-length argument in favor of Liberal political philosophy.

The legendary artist can claim 70 records, 27 ballets, 32 movies, 13 TV shows, 14 theater plays, and 6 exhibitions of artists such as Franz Krajkberg, Akiko Fujita, Antonio Peticov, and Marilda Pedroso.

The organizers of the award explained that the National Gastón Baquero Independent Literature Award “stimulates literary independence.”

El Salvador’s National Direction of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Secultura has established protocols to preserve one of the nation’s most important archaeological sites, Tacuscalco Los Cerritos.

In Sac Actun, the world’s largest system of flooded caves, a research group has recently dug up the remains of what appears to be a human skeleton.

“Who is in charge of public works and monuments?”

Last year, the search for the fifth cenote of Chichén Itzá began and it seems that the team of explorers are on the brink of locating this important archeological discovery.