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.

Argentinian Inés Katzenstein will be stepping up as the new curator of Latin American Arts for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as well as be directing the brand new Research Institute of Patricia Phelps of Cisneros for the Study of Art in Latin America.

Although the holiday known as Carnaval is widely associated with Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and New Orleans in the United States, the city of Cajamarca in northern Peru is known for its own colorful, energetic and exciting celebration as well.

Puerto Rican Ednita Nazario shares her life story and experiences in her book called “My Life” and her album of the same title.

Seven years after her death, the Argentine poet, singer, and composer, María Elena Walsh (1930-2011), now has her own foundation: the María Elena Walsh Foundation (M.E.W).

The novel Temporada de Huracanes by Mexican author Fernanda Melchor has become a hit sensation across Latin America, now reaching Chilean shelves.