Pablo Cerda argued in The Santiago Times that “one of South America’s biggest music festivals, the Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar is a marketer’s dream and music lover’s nightmare.” 

Alexandra Jolly wrote in Colombia Reports of Medellín that the 54th annual Cartagena Film Festival began with promise with “many famous faces” in attendance to see films ranging in origin from Latin America to Iran.  

Página/12 of Buenos Aires reported that archaeologists have found the remains of a Spanish ship that sank with 193 people, but is well known to history because the crew managed to build another vessel from the wreckage and return home. 

El Tiempo of Bogotá noted with sadness that Venezuelan singer and composer Simón Díaz, known to his compatriots as “Tío Simón” and author of the renowned song “Caballo Viejo,” died at age 85, said his daughter Bettsimar Díaz.  “With tears I announce to my beloved country that my father passed this morning in peace,” she

El Universal of Mexico City reported that poets from 60 countries and five continents at the X International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua made a declaration to the various Spanish Language Academies concerning the validity of Rubén Darío’s work. 

El Comercio of Quito noted that thirty years after his death in Paris, “Julio Cortázar and his brilliant pen continue to inspire new generations of Argentine writers.”  “I think Cortázar is present when I think about my characters, the importance of cities as recurrent settings for my fiction, as well as the quest for writing

In Qué Pasa Magazine of Santiago Jorge Sánchez wrote that Rodrigo Sepúlveda heard the story that inspired his film “Aurora” more than a decade ago.  A woman in southern Chile found a dead baby girl in a landfill and wanted to adopt her so she could bury her. 

El Espectador of Bogotá marveled that while Daniela Liebman is just 11-years-old, the Mexican prodigy is already determined to be one of the best pianists in the world.  Her favorite music is classical, especially Chopin, Franz Liszt, Mozart, and Beethoven, but she also enjoys pop, jazz, and blues “with The Beatles and Queen” thrown in. 

Francisca Montecinos noted in La Tercera of Santiago that at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival the Chilean film “Matar a un hombre” (“To Kill a Man”) ​​won the Jury Prize for Best drama performed outside the United States. 

Óscar Collazos wrote in El Tiempo of Bogotá,  that as contemporary art has pulled away from the people, that is, has lost the understanding and sympathy of a large number of people, many “empirical” artists have been “expelled” from the new trends and taken refuge in what has been called the “folk art.”