Mariachi bands across Mexico today are facing challenges from an uncompromising judicial system and a generational change in musical preference, changes that prompt many to fear a decline in this historical genre over the coming years.

Patricio Guzmán is known for his trilogy La Batalle de Chile (The Battle of Chile), which is about life under the Allende government.

After recent significant scrutiny, Washington Fajardon, president of the Rio de Janeiro Heritage Institute, has become increasingly more concerned with the future of his department.

Atelier Morales is the name of an artistic duo of Cuban architects who are using their creations to challenge Cuba’s current cultural system.

Guitarist Jaime Zenamon Mirtenbaum learned to play guitar as a teenager growing up in La Paz, and has become an internationally-known performer and composer.

Due to deteriorating conditions, the Reina Torres de Arauz Anthropological Museum in Panama took down its permanent collection in 2010, and closed for restoration in 2013.

In its 49th anniversary, the Movie Festival exposed the stories of the different forgotten minorities such as small rural workers, indigenous communities, and women.

An exhibition in Mexico City entitled “Correspondencias… Archivos y fondos del Cenidiap” is displaying never-before-seen documents depicting the relationship between artists Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera. 

The Compañía Nacional de Danza of Costa Rica has put a fresh new spin on Igor Stravinsky’s iconic 1910 ballet “The Firebird,” a work originally inspired by a traditional folkloric Russian story by Aleksandr Afanásiev.

Mario Vargas Llosa has been awarded the Pedro Henríquez Ureña International Prize for Literature by the government of the Dominican Republic, despite protests by groups calling him an enemy of the island nation.