Cuba has long been undergoing a process of denationalization, a phenomenon that has over time all but completely eroded the country’s cultural identity. 

One of Panama’s most unique folkloric traditions, La danza de los cucuás (the Dance of the Cucuás), appears to be making a comeback after nearly going extinct. 

Chile’s master of painterly realism, Ricardo Maffei, explained his origins and career. 

The theater company Os Fofos Encenam was forced to cancel its performance of a play entitled “The Wife of the Train,” scheduled for May 12th at the Itaú Cultural Institute in São Paulo, due to widespread accusations of racism on social media.

The Colombian filmmaker Lisandro Duque claims that the literary works of Gabriel García Márquez are unfilmable, this despite the Nobel Prize winner’s passion for cinema.

Members of the Mexican delegation to this year’s Buenos Aires Book Fair discussed future prospects for their nation’s literature.

The Colombian filmmakers Ciro Guerra, José Luis Rugeles, and César Acevedo will be representing their country in separate categories at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which will be taking place from the 13th to the 25th of May. 

Mexico City’s National Museum of San Carlos is hosting an exhibit of the works of Raúl Anguiano entitled Raúl Anguiano’s Eternal Feminine. The exhibit marks the centenary of the Mexican painter’s birth.

Paz Errazúriz, one of Chile’s most acclaimed photographers, will be representing her country at this year’s Venice Biennale.

Known for decades as an eloquent and impassioned spokesman for the Latin American left, the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has died in Montevideo at age 74 after suffering a long bout with lung cancer. The author of the landmark 1971 polemic The Open Veins of Latin America, considered by many leftists as one of the