The most outstanding articles written by Gabriel García Márquez, over the course of the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author’s parallel career as a journalist, have just been published in five volumes by the Spanish publishing house Planeta.

“I can’t stop saying it. It’s pathetic to observe the way a great writer, a Nobel Prize-winning one at that, is falling into decline in the autumn of his life as the result of his shallow vanity.”

The prestigious Parisian film organization Cinémathèque Française under the leadership of current president, the legendary Greek director Costa-Gavras, is putting on a retrospective of experimental Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.

“At the heart of Bernardo Esquinca’s new novel Carne de ataúd (Coffin Meat) can be found a variety of obsessions, themes, and literary genres upon which the Mexican writer (Guadalajara, 1972) often loves to draw.

Chilean director José Luis Torres Leiva presented his documentary film El viento sabe que vuelvo a casa (The Winds Know That I’m Coming Back Home) on March 21 and 22 at the prestigious Cinéma du Réel in Paris.

A group of French geophysicists armed with equipment capable of detecting underground structures without the need for excavation recently journeyed to Panama in order to run tests on four key archaeological/cultural sites in the Central American nation.

The Finca Vigía Foundation, a small U.S. non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Ernest Hemingway’s former home and remaining artifacts in Cuba, will soon be receiving a $500,000 donation from Caterpillar Inc.

Members of the Cuban artist collective Los Carpinteros are showing their work at Mexico City’s Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) after a successful run at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey.

A new book by Jorge G. Castañeda outlines his political platform.

The small size of Chimalistac, a neighborhood located on Mexico City’s southern fringe, belies its enormous importance in the history of Mexican cinema.  The setting of Federico Gamboa’s 1902 wildly successful novel Santa, Chimalistac was soon to become the location for the first “talkie,” or sound film, ever shot in that nation.