Quito’s Ruta de los Calvarios provides a wealth of religious art. 

Bogotá’s international theater festival ended on a high note.   

The Popol Vuh Museum organizes a monthly lecture on issues of archaeological or historical interest. 

Mario Vargas Llosa defies simplistic political labels. The Nobel Prize-winning writer from Peru has built an impressive reputation as a freethinker. His recent comments in support of Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and his open criticisms of the Venezuelan government have made him a punching-bag for dogmatists on both sides of the aisle. 

Influential theorist Ernesto Laclau, Argentine born and London-based, and a strong ideological mentor of Kirchnerism dies at 78. 

The “young writer” Juan Pablo Castro Rodas has so far produced poems, novels, and essays.  Written from Quito, they are “not necessarily” about the place, but (reminiscent of Javier Vásconez, known as “the great narrator of Quito”) Castro Rodas “recognizes that there is a dialogue” that comes from “the vision he has acquired after twelve

The “art of catching moments” appealed to the young Ismael. 

During a tribute to Octavio Paz on his one hundredth birthday, President Enrique Peña Nieto stressed the work and legacy of the only Mexican to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1990). 

Pablo Cerda argued in The Santiago Times that “one of South America’s biggest music festivals, the Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar is a marketer’s dream and music lover’s nightmare.” 

Alexandra Jolly wrote in Colombia Reports of Medellín that the 54th annual Cartagena Film Festival began with promise with “many famous faces” in attendance to see films ranging in origin from Latin America to Iran.