The International Music Festival of the Heights was organized to raise awareness for the respect and care for mountains, as a prelude to COP20, world summit climate change. 

When the artist Fausto Pacheco was born in Heredia in 1899, Costa Rica was a very different place. San José was only the size of a large town, and the avenues were lined with streetcars. 

Archaeologists have found two ancient Mayan cities in southeastern Mexico, and the lead researcher says he believes there are “dozens” more to be found in the region. 

Nicanor Parra celebrated his 100th birthday on September 5. 

Director Sebastián del Amo’s biopic, “Cantinflas,” about Mexican actor Mario Moreno and his iconic alter ego of the same name, opened in theaters in the US on August 29.  

This year’s Festival de Luz (Festival of Light) features the work of 500 photographers from 31 different countries at 178 different venues throughout Argentina. 

Spanish illustrator Tyto Alba is creating a comic book story about Chavela Vargas and Frida Kahlo, two of the most internationally prominent women of Mexican culture. 

Playwright, theater director and filmmaker Santiago Loza, is the featured guest of the second Off Buenos Aires Festival in Santiago, Chile. 

Landmarks and monuments are falling into disrepair in the Nicaragua’s capital, and choosing which of them will receive appropriate attention may be a political decision. 

Poets from Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Uruguay, Spain, Venezuela, Ecuador, the United States and Luxembourg joined the Chilean poet Oscar Hahn, author of “El arte de morir” (“The Art of Dying”), in attending the Sixth Festival of Latin American Poetry in Buenos Aires which began on Tuesday, July 22.