Issue Jul 01-31 2025: The Borja Luthiery School is developing the project “The guitar, instrument of the guarania” in honor of the 100 year commemoration of the music genre guarania. This project pays homage to the creator José Asunción Flores, whose creation of the genre globalized Paraguayan music.

Issue Jun 25-Jul 01 2025: During the 40th anniversary of their album Seven Churches, the famous American heavy-metal band Possessed performed at Teatro Cariola in Chile.

Issue Jun 25-Jul 01 2025: In light of her death and headlining will complications, Beatriz Sarlo’s posthumously published novel, No Entender: Memorias de una Intelectual, has seen an increase in sales.

Issue Jun 25-Jul 01 2025: Bronco, one of the most popular regional Mexican music bands of the last 40 years, played several sold out shows in Argentina.

Issue Jun 18-24 2025: The third week of June brought La estrategia del mero, Edgar de Luque Jácome’s debut film to theatres.

Issue Jun 18-24 2025: At 12 years old, Javier Bassi arrived at Pierre Fossey’s studio, unaware that he was a French artist based in Montevideo just like himself. From this young age, he had already begun visiting museums on his own accord and had done an astonishing portrait of Horacio Quiroga.

Issue Jun 18-24 2025: Peruvian college students presented a famous play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt that explores themes of right, wrong, justice, and survival.

Issue Jun 18-24 2025: He never permitted his work to be displayed in single-artist exhibits, even though he participated in salons and competitions for over fifty years, nor did he ever appear in person to accept the awards he garnered or even allow himself to be photographed.

–Researched and Written by Mike Engle— Issue Jun 12-17 2025: The recent death of renowned US-Panamanian artist Al Sprague on May 1 generated an outpouring of tributes in the Panamanian press.

Issue Jun 12-17 2025: Written in 1988 by Reinaldo Arenas, A Plebiscite on Fidel Castro was neither a pamphlet nor an angry proclamation; it was a letter written from exile.