Mexican novelist Julián Herbert’s new offering, La casa del dolor ajeno, revisits the 1911 massacre of 303 Chinese citizens by revolutionary combatants in the city of Torreón, an event that the novel suggests has its analogues in the present.

The literary critic George Steiner has claimed that Muhammad Ali was an aesthetic phenomenon, a kind of god that Homer would have understood perfectly.

Enrique Graue, the current president of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), called upon his fellow citizens to “raise their voice” against budget cuts proposed by certain “financial-technocratic minds” in the government.

Chilean documentary filmmaker Daniel Osorio’s latest offering, El soltero de la familia (The Unmarried One in the Family), centers on the director himself, offering a defense of the unmarried life and a rebuttal to the claim that we need a spouse to be happy.

Bolivia’s Museo Nacional de Arte is hosting a retrospective homage dedicated to the work of renowned artist Víctor Zapana Serna. Serna, who died in 1997, is known as one of the world’s most eminent practitioners of traditional Bolivian sculpture, and the new exhibit is meant not only to honor his work but also to underscore

The Smithsonian Museum has awarded one of four prizes granted through its Artist Leadership Program to the Mexican textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez.

La Morera, a down-and-out neighborhood in Guatemala City bearing the scars of decades of neglect, has become the scene of a revitalization project spearheaded by residents, community organizers, and a group of socially-committed artists.

Wendy Sulca, the singing sensation whose music videos went viral in her native Peru while she was still in her teens, has made her big-screen acting debut in a new Chilean movie entitled Coach. 

Mexico City’s Museo Universitario del Chopo is showcasing six new pieces by the artist Daniel Guzmán in an exhibit entitled Soup, cosmos & tears (named after a poem by Charles Bukowski). The pieces are aimed at inspiring “the spectator to think about the notion of mortality, to motivate him to reflect on the current instant,

Farewell messages poured in after the death of the popular Argentine cartoonist, painter and sculptor.