Issue Apr 10-16 2024: Brazilian writer and historicist Roberto R. Martins released his latest novel, set in the Sul da Bahia region and featuring a mixture of jagunços, coronels, ex-slaves, and Indigenous peoples – an assembly capturing the historic memory of thousands of Brazilians.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: The latest novel from Sergio Ramírez, El Caballo Dorado, is a story of adventures and troubles that begins in Siret, a lost town in the Carpathians in northern Romania, and ends in Nicaragua, after the overthrowing of the dictator José Santos Zelaya.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: The impact of composer and pianist Mariano Mores, famed as a “tango idol” from Buenos Aires, is still felt to this day.

Issue Apr 10-16 2024: The Chilean film Los hiperbóreos by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña will be presented at the 2024 Filmmakers’ Fortnight among 21 other feature films at this parallel section of the Cannes Festival.