Journalists from across Latin America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, received prizes at the King of Spain International Journalism Awards ceremony held in Madrid on February 28.

On February 27, the UCLA Film and Television Archive announced that it had reached an agreement with Cuba’s Cinemateca to restore a number of the island country’s pre-revolutionary films.

It was like a gift for Valentine’s Day, 1955. Forty tons of “communist” books were placed at President Richard M. Nixon’s feet before being hauled off to the fire, a purge that marked the beginning of a campaign to control Guatemalan minds. This campaign might well very have been called “The Overthrow of Arbenz: Part

Although it may cause traditionalists to suffer from ideological dyspepsia, gone is the era in which the Latin American political left could be roused to action by folkloric protest music.

Patricio Guzmán, one of Chile’s most acclaimed filmmakers, is putting in an appearance at the Berlin International Film Festival to present his documentary “The Pearl Button.”

This year’s Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival went to “Ixcanul,” the first feature length movie by Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante.

Pedro Lemebel, the Chilean queer writer and performer, who died on January 23, 2015, “was able to speak aloud when all were whispering during that long night that was the 1980s.” 

“Today I believe that writers should publish pieces in newspapers and take part in democracy, as well as literature.” 

With his hair brushed and a camisetão to his knees Rico Dalasam walks through the outskirts of São Paulo. “I’m still discovering how to be a gay rapper in Brazil.” 

Carlos Flores Marini was an architect and advocate of Mexican art; Neé Emelia Pérez Castellanos, better known as Ninón Sevilla, was born in Havana, Cuba, and started out to be a missionary nun, but instead followed her love of dancing and acting.