The theater company Os Fofos Encenam was forced to cancel its performance of a play entitled “The Wife of the Train,” scheduled for May 12th at the Itaú Cultural Institute in São Paulo, due to widespread accusations of racism on social media.

The Colombian filmmaker Lisandro Duque claims that the literary works of Gabriel García Márquez are unfilmable, this despite the Nobel Prize winner’s passion for cinema.

Members of the Mexican delegation to this year’s Buenos Aires Book Fair discussed future prospects for their nation’s literature.

The Colombian filmmakers Ciro Guerra, José Luis Rugeles, and César Acevedo will be representing their country in separate categories at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which will be taking place from the 13th to the 25th of May. 

Mexico City’s National Museum of San Carlos is hosting an exhibit of the works of Raúl Anguiano entitled Raúl Anguiano’s Eternal Feminine. The exhibit marks the centenary of the Mexican painter’s birth.

Paz Errazúriz, one of Chile’s most acclaimed photographers, will be representing her country at this year’s Venice Biennale.

Known for decades as an eloquent and impassioned spokesman for the Latin American left, the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has died in Montevideo at age 74 after suffering a long bout with lung cancer. The author of the landmark 1971 polemic The Open Veins of Latin America, considered by many leftists as one of the

Since his death on April 17 last year, Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez is now more alive than ever. The past twelve months have witnessed an avalanche of articles dedicated to the man and his work, innumerable tributes from journalists and filmmakers, and the republication of his writings at home and abroad.

French director Laurent Cantet’s feature film Return to Ithaca is scheduled to premiere in Havana in May as part of Cuba’s fifteenth French Film Festival. 

This year’s Alfaguara Novel Prize was awarded to the Chilean writer Carla Guelfenbein for her novel Contigo en la distancia (In the Distance with You).