Summer comes but once a year... and thank heavens for that. Quite apart from my prezidential affairs of state, I've been so ...

No doubt June will prove to be a record-breaker, heat-wise, but the month has also seen some fine new albums surfacing. I've ...

“New Jersey based Grupo Majezza have been forging their own path on the cumbia sonidera front for over a decade. With a devoted YouTube and social media following, it was only a matter of time before ...

This year’s BIME Bogotá was less about spectacle and more about substance. In between panels, one-on-one conversations, and ...

Latin American music in the last decade has swept the world with its infectious rhythms, beautiful lyrics, and melodies that ...

In Latin America and the Caribbean, music and dance are important parts of daily life. In Havana and Rio, people tell stories by just dancing. The dances show ...

This short documentary directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo and executive produced by Gael Garcia Bernal, beautifully tells the story of Lorena Ramírez, a Mexican long-distance runner of Tarahumara origin ...

As tattoos have grown in popularity over the years, so too have the options for removing them. Whether due to a change in personal taste, lifestyle, or profession, the decision to remove a tattoo is ...

Federico Falco, the award-winning Argentinian novelist, short story writer and poet, is publishing his first work in English this month with Charco Press. A Perfect Cemetery is a rich, sophisticated ...

The far-north coast of Ecuador has a historical and cultural background that sets it apart from most of the rest of the country, with cultural traditions whose roots stretch across the globe. In ...

Whilst spending several weeks in Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, as part of an exciting research project exploring the socio-political effects of coca cultivation and cocaine ...

The day after in Lewisham sees a very special meeting of two traditional Colombian music genres. Representing the Pacific coast will be the marimba sounds of Agrupación Patacoré all the way from ...