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. 

Indigenous people in Peru’s northeastern Amazon are taking legal action to block oil exploration in a concession that overlaps with their territory. 

A coalition of NGOs denounced the Peruvian government’s acceptance of an environmental impact study submitted in support of the controversial Tía María mining project. 

Ombudsman Rolando Villena ordered compliance with a judgment demanding a reversal of the eviction notice for the indigenous communities in the timber area of Pando. 

Brazil’s agricultural competitiveness is a concern to countries and trade blocks who are negotiating agreements with Brazil, according to Ambassador Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita, head of the Economics Department of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Relations. 

Visiting South Africa Bachelet drew comparisons between the two countries’ recent histories. 

The project is aimed at lending money to developing nations for investments, much like how the American and European-backed International Monetary Fund and World Bank operate.