Mesa Soto won the Palme d’Or. 

The poet opened the Primer Encuentro Internacional de Poesía held at the XV Feria del Libro de Santa Cruz.  Other invited poets were Roberto Resendiz, Lucas Viriato, René Figueroa, and Carlos Aldazábal. 

“In the cinema of today there isn’t much space for silence.” 

After weeks of speculation regarding the nomination, anthropologist Ramón Rivas gets the nod from President Elect Salvador Sánchez Cerén. 

“La unión de América Latina” from 1924, has a crack that will be repaired. 

Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano said in an interview that he considers his 1971 book The Open Veins of Latin America, by far his best-known work, to be so bad he will no longer read from it during public appearances.  MercoPress of Montevideo wrote that Galeano made the public admission at the Brasilia book show.  “I

Di Couto recently spoke about works in her upcoming first solo exhibition, the choice of different techniques used to create them, and about life as a female street artist in Rio.  In The Rio Times of Rio de Janeiro Chesney Hearst wrote that Rio artist Diana “Di” Couto’s first solo exhibition entitled, “Outro Olhar” (“Another

Quito’s Ruta de los Calvarios provides a wealth of religious art. 

Bogotá’s international theater festival ended on a high note.   

The Popol Vuh Museum organizes a monthly lecture on issues of archaeological or historical interest.