Issue Jan 01-09 2024: Ex-presidents, ex-directors, and artists involved with the Argentinian National Fund for the Arts (FNA) signed a public letter opposing categorically the institution’s defunding as proposed by President Milei’s ambitious “omnibus bill.”

Issue Jan 01-09 2024: Twenty-five years after the founding of El Faro, the iconic Central American digital newspaper, its director Carlos Dada has published a collection of ten articles seeking to explain the region’s democratic backslide, a backslide which has forced him and many other regional journalists into exile.

Issue Dec 01-31 2023: With the re-opening of the bookstore Clásica y Moderna in Buenos Aires, the city has recovered a major cultural refuge.

Issue Dec 01-31 2023: Research led by Lorena Antezana from the University of Chile indicates that despite evolving TV consumption habits such as on-demand programming and streaming, young Chileans continue to watch local soap operas.

Issue Dec 01-31 2023: Traveling barefoot throughout the country carrying a colorful backpack filled with hand carved flutes, Crescencio Salcedo, one of Colombia’s most emblematic musicians, never took credit nor royalties for his songs.

Issue Dec 01-31 2023: Shakira finished 2023 by adding another accomplishment to her list of many: she has been announced as the “all-time most-searched artist with music in Spanish or Portuguese on Google in the world.”

Issue Nov 15-30 2023: The music video “Virgen Mambisa [Exiliada],” performed by Cuban singer Haydée Milanés and produced by Pavel Urquiza, is to be premiered on December 6 in the Félix Varela Hall of the Ermita de la Caridad in Miami.

Issue Nov 15-30 2023: In Guatemala, José Batres Montufar, well-versed in Latin, French, and English, immersed himself in the works of Víctor Hugo, Lord Byron, Holderlin, Heine, and Schiller.

Issue Nov 15-30 2023: Argentine artist Lala Pasquinelli was selected for the BBC’s 100 Most Inspirational and Influential Women in 2023.

Issue Nov 15-30 2023: A dazzling collective exhibition featuring an army of artists from Lima and beyond has taken over the monumental Casa Fugaz in Callao, closing the year with a burst of artistic brilliance.