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This May, Buenos Aires will host the twentieth edition of arteBA, the major fair of Latin American art held annually in the city. Under the banner &lsqu...
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For 22 years, the Colombian capital city has hosted the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogota, a celebration of the dramatic arts. The festival ta...
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In October 2008 the Colección de Arte Amalia LaCroze de Fortabat opened in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, contributing to the rapid transformation ...
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Santiago Gamboa (Bogotá, 1965) is one of the finest Latin American writers of his generation. Last September he was awarded the La Otra Orilla Literary Awa...
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Sea, the beach, Bob Marley, sun, chillout, hash, Fidel Castro, Rastafari, Haiti, hot, cool… This is just a short list of the answers people gave me when I ...
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A Word on the Work:I wrote this piece one morning after taking a taxi from Spanish Town to Kingston en route to the University of the West Indies. I don’t ...
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One only has to take a look at what is available under Green Shopping in the ‘Environment’ section of The Guar...
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Candomblé is the term that is probably most widely used in Brazil to refer to the religious practices whose origins...
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It is an opinion widely held that mass-consumerism is eradicating difference across the globe in the interests of big busi...
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Sergio León spreads conviction and enthusiasm in every thought that he shares with me. He arrived to the UK 35 years ago; he was 27 years old, he was marri...
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Non-fiction cinema has a long tradition in Latin America. Probably the first deliberate attempts of registering reality not just to preserve it on film or ...
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In the aftermath of the news of Néstor Kirchner’s death, the media is highlighting this state leader’s mobilization to challenge the ...
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