Like many Peruvian bands, the indie group Dan Dan Dero has found greater success abroad, specifically in Colombia, than its home country.

“How would the Cuban people react if, suddenly, a billionaire from Dubai offered to buy their island for five billion dollars?”

–Written by Chris McCallum– Celebrated Chilean poet Nicanor Parra passed away on January 23 at the age of 103. He collected all the most coveted prizes of Latin American literature as well as being a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. A recluse during his final twenty years, he more than made up for

–Written by Kimberly Mentzer– The Nicaraguan-Salvadoran writer, Claribel Alegría, died in January at the age of 93. She died happy, surrounded by her children, and unafraid of death, knowing that she had lived a fulfilling life. Among the many recognitions she received for her writing, she was the first Central American woman to win the

Amidst the turbulent social and political rhetoric concerning migration in the United States, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (Crossing the Face of the Moon), will be performed in New York.

Latin America boasts several critically-acclaimed films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards.

The Miguel Lerdo de Tejada library has become one of the most important pieces of Mexico’s heritage.

Pum Pum, the Argentine muralist whose paintings can be seen in Buenos Aires, Germany, and China, describes “the spirit of the universe” in her art: “a burst of colors that…give value to the minimum.”

Performing as Rubilyn the Clown, Rúben Asencio, 43, entertains crowds each weekend afternoon in downtown Guayaquil.

A report from the Swedish Academy revealed why Jorge Luis Borges never won the Nobel Prize for literature. Borges’ visit to Pinochet’s Chile may have influenced the president of the Nobel committee, Anders Österling, to veto the Argentine writer in 1967.