On the 117th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges, several Argentinean cities celebrated his birth and the Day of the Reader with a public tribute by “releasing” poetry.

Venezuelan percussionist César Torres, a graduate of the El Sistema program, has developed a new instrument titled the “tubófono” made of recycled materials.

Mexican novelist Julián Herbert’s new offering, La casa del dolor ajeno, revisits the 1911 massacre of 303 Chinese citizens by revolutionary combatants in the city of Torreón, an event that the novel suggests has its analogues in the present.

The literary critic George Steiner has claimed that Muhammad Ali was an aesthetic phenomenon, a kind of god that Homer would have understood perfectly.

Enrique Graue, the current president of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), called upon his fellow citizens to “raise their voice” against budget cuts proposed by certain “financial-technocratic minds” in the government.

Chilean documentary filmmaker Daniel Osorio’s latest offering, El soltero de la familia (The Unmarried One in the Family), centers on the director himself, offering a defense of the unmarried life and a rebuttal to the claim that we need a spouse to be happy.

Bolivia’s Museo Nacional de Arte is hosting a retrospective homage dedicated to the work of renowned artist Víctor Zapana Serna. Serna, who died in 1997, is known as one of the world’s most eminent practitioners of traditional Bolivian sculpture, and the new exhibit is meant not only to honor his work but also to underscore

The Smithsonian Museum has awarded one of four prizes granted through its Artist Leadership Program to the Mexican textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez.

La Morera, a down-and-out neighborhood in Guatemala City bearing the scars of decades of neglect, has become the scene of a revitalization project spearheaded by residents, community organizers, and a group of socially-committed artists.

Wendy Sulca, the singing sensation whose music videos went viral in her native Peru while she was still in her teens, has made her big-screen acting debut in a new Chilean movie entitled Coach.