Every year, Lima hosts the FIL or Feria Internacional del Libro, inviting various authors to share their stories.

A museum that interactively tells the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was opened at the Playa del Carmen resort in southeastern Mexico.

When Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, both considered integral to the “Latin American Boom” literature movement in the 1960s and 70s, asked authors to contribute to a book about “the fathers of the homeland,” they were asking for stories on political tyrants – specifically, each author’s “favorite national tyrants.”

On June 18, in primetime, TVN premiered 62, historia de un mundial; the series shows the Chilean team preparing for that epic World Cup tournament.

On June 22, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, tenor Juan Diego Flórez, and Minister of Culture Salvador Del Solar presented the Ministry of Culture’s Ayacucho Waytarin plan.

Colombia has hosted many music festivals in recent months, some with a common theme.

Conservationists will “hug” an iconic building before seeing it demolished.

While current tensions in Latin American journalism make the news, audiences are urged to remember Uruguayan journalist, author and poet, Eduardo Galeano, who passed away in 2015.

Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist and activist, will be exhibiting his work in Buenos Aires.

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH) Cinemateca Enrique Ponce Garay celebrates three years gathering film treasures that record the development of cinema in Honduras and important events in the nation’s political and social history.