In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, the Instituto de México has put on display 28 artworks by the recently deceased Spanish painter Sofía Gandarias.

Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s new novel, La forma de las ruinas (The Shape of the Ruins), centers around one of his country’s most infamous crimes: the assassination of politician and Liberal Party presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948.

A document entitled “The Revolution’s Program of Political and Social Reform” is newly on display at the Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de las Revoluciones de México (INEHRM) in Mexico City. 

Cuban novelist Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, author of the infamous Dirty Havana Trilogy among other works, is of the opinion that his country is undergoing a gradual process of modernization in which “little by little, things are getting easier,” although he insists that Cubans urgently need to forget the “resentments and hatreds” of the past in

Chilean environmental artist Aymara Zegers, in collaboration with biologists from the Río Seco Natural History Museum in Punta Arenas and the Mar Adentro Foundation under the leadership of fellow environmental artist Madeline Hurtado, has launched an initiative entitled Campamento Naturalista (Naturalist Camp).

The most outstanding articles written by Gabriel García Márquez, over the course of the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author’s parallel career as a journalist, have just been published in five volumes by the Spanish publishing house Planeta.

“I can’t stop saying it. It’s pathetic to observe the way a great writer, a Nobel Prize-winning one at that, is falling into decline in the autumn of his life as the result of his shallow vanity.”

The prestigious Parisian film organization Cinémathèque Française under the leadership of current president, the legendary Greek director Costa-Gavras, is putting on a retrospective of experimental Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.

“At the heart of Bernardo Esquinca’s new novel Carne de ataúd (Coffin Meat) can be found a variety of obsessions, themes, and literary genres upon which the Mexican writer (Guadalajara, 1972) often loves to draw.

Chilean director José Luis Torres Leiva presented his documentary film El viento sabe que vuelvo a casa (The Winds Know That I’m Coming Back Home) on March 21 and 22 at the prestigious Cinéma du Réel in Paris.