After weeks of speculation regarding the nomination, anthropologist Ramón Rivas gets the nod from President Elect Salvador Sánchez Cerén. 

“La unión de América Latina” from 1924, has a crack that will be repaired. 

Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano said in an interview that he considers his 1971 book The Open Veins of Latin America, by far his best-known work, to be so bad he will no longer read from it during public appearances.  MercoPress of Montevideo wrote that Galeano made the public admission at the Brasilia book show.  “I

Di Couto recently spoke about works in her upcoming first solo exhibition, the choice of different techniques used to create them, and about life as a female street artist in Rio.  In The Rio Times of Rio de Janeiro Chesney Hearst wrote that Rio artist Diana “Di” Couto’s first solo exhibition entitled, “Outro Olhar” (“Another

Quito’s Ruta de los Calvarios provides a wealth of religious art. 

Bogotá’s international theater festival ended on a high note.   

The Popol Vuh Museum organizes a monthly lecture on issues of archaeological or historical interest. 

Mario Vargas Llosa defies simplistic political labels. The Nobel Prize-winning writer from Peru has built an impressive reputation as a freethinker. His recent comments in support of Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and his open criticisms of the Venezuelan government have made him a punching-bag for dogmatists on both sides of the aisle. 

Influential theorist Ernesto Laclau, Argentine born and London-based, and a strong ideological mentor of Kirchnerism dies at 78. 

The “young writer” Juan Pablo Castro Rodas has so far produced poems, novels, and essays.  Written from Quito, they are “not necessarily” about the place, but (reminiscent of Javier Vásconez, known as “the great narrator of Quito”) Castro Rodas “recognizes that there is a dialogue” that comes from “the vision he has acquired after twelve