“We propose independence,” declared film director and producer Osvaldo Ortíz, “for the very essence of the audiovisual industry. We need an institute formed by people who are inside the industry, and with a link to the State.”

Nobel Prize-winning author and giant in the world of arts and letters, Mario Vargas Llosa recently published La llamada de la tribu (The Call of the Tribe) a book-length argument in favor of Liberal political philosophy.

The legendary artist can claim 70 records, 27 ballets, 32 movies, 13 TV shows, 14 theater plays, and 6 exhibitions of artists such as Franz Krajkberg, Akiko Fujita, Antonio Peticov, and Marilda Pedroso.

The organizers of the award explained that the National Gastón Baquero Independent Literature Award “stimulates literary independence.”

El Salvador’s National Direction of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Secultura has established protocols to preserve one of the nation’s most important archaeological sites, Tacuscalco Los Cerritos.

In Sac Actun, the world’s largest system of flooded caves, a research group has recently dug up the remains of what appears to be a human skeleton.

“Who is in charge of public works and monuments?”

Last year, the search for the fifth cenote of Chichén Itzá began and it seems that the team of explorers are on the brink of locating this important archeological discovery.

Argentinian Inés Katzenstein will be stepping up as the new curator of Latin American Arts for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as well as be directing the brand new Research Institute of Patricia Phelps of Cisneros for the Study of Art in Latin America.

Although the holiday known as Carnaval is widely associated with Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and New Orleans in the United States, the city of Cajamarca in northern Peru is known for its own colorful, energetic and exciting celebration as well.