The trans-continental slave trade has left deep wounds in the western hemisphere, many of which are still felt today.

Marimba musician Hugo Candelario and his band, Bahía, are promoting their new song, “Siempre.”

Trained as a documentary director, filmmaker Fernando Guzzoni immerses himself in research in both his non-fiction and fiction work.

“My two fundamental weaknesses: tobacco and reading.” So wrote Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara, his diary now on display for viewers in Argentina’s national library, La Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno.

The world of art publications in Guatemala is “tenacious and persistent,” and literature, “without a doubt,” has received the most attention. Photography, on the other hand, has not been acknowledged as much. 

Art and politics have long had a controversial relationship in Latin America. Often times the political pressures of the era can severely hinder the artistic expression of the citizens.

Many noteworthy South American musicians performed at the Espacio Cultural Nuestros Hijos (ECUNHI), to celebrate what would have been influential author, artist, and singer Violeta Parra’s 100th birthday.

She was a “girl with artist’s hands and blue eyes.” Olga Teresa Salazar Lardé, known as Olga Salarrué, was the daughter of two artistic parents: the writer and painter, Salvador Salazar Arrué “Salarrué” and Zelié Lardé, also a painter. 

A Uruguayan university, La Facultad de Arquitectura de la Udelar, is launching an app that locates “the most valuable buildings of the city” to invite Uruguayans to “value their architectural patrimony.”

After years of poor security measures and months of misinformation, it has finally been revealed that in the last months of 2016, eleven pieces were stolen from the National Museum of Anthropology in El Salvador (MUNA).