Twelve Latin American films exploring such issues as violence, poverty, and racial discrimination are competing at this year’s Oscars for a nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.

ArtBo 2015 got kicked off this month in Bogotá, Colombia, the eleventh time the event has taken place in the South American nation.

Renowned Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, who recently performed in Cuba, was quick to assure his island hosts that he was pleased to be in Havana not only to play his music, but also “above all, to listen.”

The “Feria del Millón” (the Fair of a Million) took place during the first week of October at the Textura Creative Center in Bogotá, Colombia.

A new exhibit entitled “Frida Kahlo—Connections between Women” opened on Sunday, November the 27th at the Instituto Tomie Oktake in Sao Paulo to reports of immediate success.

Famed Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez will be heading this year’s VIVA Peru Festival in Mexico City.  

Carmen Balcells, whom Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa have called the “Mamá grande” of the Latin American Boom, has died at 85 years of age.

Although the most popular current bands in Uruguay held the lion’s share of nominations at the recent Graffiti Awards for Uruguayan music, the biggest winners were two artists who, despite being signed to major labels, represent the most alternative edge of the nation’s musical spectrum.

The 2015 edition of the CHIRIPA Comedy and Circus Festival will make its run from September 17th to the 24th in Guatemala City.

Ricardo Simón Antonio hopes to make a place for himself in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest active musician in Cuba and perhaps the world.