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.

Venezuelan filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas was among the winners at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

In Luque, the Paraguayan capital of the arts, a woman is keeping alive the ancestral art of traditional guitar-making.

The Colombian tradition of literary criticism got started in earnest in the nineteenth century when prolific columnist Luis Tejada published a number of short, unclassifiable articles in various national newspapers, pieces that would later be roughly categorized as “crónicas” since nobody knew what else to call them.

Fernando Somarriba de Valery is one of the most celebrated film directors to have ever emerged from Nicaragua.

An ancient Mayan mask sculpted from jade stands as the centerpiece of a new exhibit at Mexico City’s National Anthropology Museum.

What is Peruvian piano? What makes it unique?