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Four Bullets: For Racism, Misogyny, Homophobia and Impunity

The assassinaton of Brazilian human rights activist Marielle Franco has had huge repercussions not only in Brazil but for human rights workers all over the world. Jan Rocha places her death in context and considers the…

Arts and Culture

Blood Wedding, by Gabriel Garcia Lorca at The Courtyard Theatre

Beautiful, affecting and credible, The Courtyard’s production of Blood Wedding does more than justice to Lorca’s sublime play about love at its highest levels of intensity.

Society and Politics

White Flowers - When Santos met London's Colombian Community

For the UK’s Colombian community, one of the world’s largest Colombian diasporas, President Juan Manuel Santos’ state visit was a historic event. Following the international media spotlight on Colombia, the recent rejection of…

Film & Theatre

Chile's Artistic Renaissance Questions the Past

From decades of silence and a few lone voices such as documentary-maker Patricio Guzman, has come a flourishing arts industry in Chile, with film studios like Fabula, Oscar-winning directors like Sebastian Lelio, and artists like…

Arts and Culture

Neruda (2016) Dir. Pablo Larrain

The latest Chilean addition to a great Latin American tradition of highly entertaining political thrillers, or 'Latin Noir' as the genre is now known. Neruda, focuses on the the arrest warrant issued in 1948 for the…

Music

Voltio and the Salseros of the Carcel

Voltio's visit to London this week somehow got us walking down the nostalgia path of Latino music 'en la carcel'. It's a weird and wonderful journey behind the musical bars.........

Music

BUIKA THERAPY

Born of immigrants from Equatorial Guinea and growing up among Romani gypsies in Mallorca, Concha Buika has emerged to become Spain’s most unlikely Flamenco star. Yet her haunting, velvety voice, her sentimiento and chiselled…

Society and Politics

Confessions of a Coolhunter

Amaranta Wright was hired by Levi's to travel through Latin America, befriending teenagers and reporting their ideas, hopes and aspirations. As time passed, the more sinister and divisive aspects of what she was being asked…

Arts and Culture

Camera Catalonia @ The 37th Cambridge Film Festival

In an not un-timely event, Corina Poore, relishes the series of Catalan films at the Cambridge Film Festival’s CAMERA CATALONIA this year

Society and Politics

This Latino Week

Timochenko Assassination Attempt, Haiti Rule By Decree, Mexico Aztec Gold Bar, Giammattei Guatemala Asylum Dilemma, Venezuela Parra Sanctions, Argentina IMF Renegotiation Date

Society and Politics

Brazil: Facebook Enables Landgrabbing

In a new TV documentary, BBC Brasil penetrated deep within criminal networks illegally selling and deforesting conserved lands — even within an Indigenous reserve - to find some land grabbers are posting the plots they’re selling…

Music

MARCOS VALLE- SEMPRE- Far Out (FARO 211 LP)

For several decades, Marcos Valle’s winning formula of well-produced bossa/boogie/beach vibes has been a shoo-in for non-Brazilian MPB fans and Sempre, his 28th album, is no different.

Society and Politics

Mexican Milk

Indigenous culture is used to market the country at home and abroad, so why is it that only white faces appear on Mexican adverts?

Food

COYA

Upmarket Peruvian cuisine doing justice to the craze

Arts and Culture

LATIN HOTLIST #6 - SUMMER 2017

Think Latin, Feel Latin, Buy Latin...here's our choice of great Latin products on the market this Summer

Music

Voice in Residence

In the often vacuous world of Reggaeton, Residente has stood out as one of its most outspoken artists. Even at the Grammy Awards, where he has, perhaps surprisingly, won more than any other Latin artist, the former Calle 13…

Society and Politics

Buenos Aires: the virus reaches the ‘villas miseria’

Ramona Medina, one of the community leaders of Villa 31, a Buenos Aires villa miseria, died from coronavirus after publically denouncing the lack of water and the conditions for maintaining social distancing measures in her…

Arts and Culture

The Taste of Colombia

London's most celebrated Latin American chef and owner of one of London's finest Latin American restaurants describes his passion for the cuisine of his homeland, Colombia. Can we sense a touch of nostalgia, Esnayder?

Music

It Takes Two…

Love comes in many forms, but music never lies when it comes to harmony...so we bring you the best in North-South Harmony? From Frank Sinatra and Tom Jobim when mutual admiration looked so cool (I mean, the legs crossed and fag…

Music

Movimientos 10th Birthday Playlist

DJ Cal Jader chooses 10 tracks from the Movimientos crates with some of the tunes that rocked the dance floor at their early nights to three key releases on their record label and a few killer tunes from the last few years.

Food

Ceviche

Three outstanding Peruvian cooks, resident in London, test the quality and authenticity of London's burgeoning Peruvan restaurants. last stop....Cevche

Arts and Culture

The VIA Art Prize celebrates its 4th year.

Latino Life talks to Ting Tong Chang, who’s work ‘Peng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness’ won the VIA Art Prize in 2016. Now Chang is a juror for the up- and- coming VIA Art Prize, inviting candidates to offer their work for…

Food

Bar Esteban

As a local to the area, Bar Esteban is my go-to for tapas. Deceptively spacious and simply but elegantly decorated, this spot screams Crouch End, with Aesop soap in the bathroom and stylish Salvador Dalí business cards. With a…

Music

Music Speaks

At only 46, Vicente Amigo is already considered a Flamenco legend and the greatest Spanish guitarist of his generation. Currently touring with his new album “Tierra” Vicente Amigo talks to Latino Life.

Society and Politics

This Latino Week

Spain counts lowest Coronavirus death toll in weeks, Augusto Aras resigns, Mexico's new $26bn virus spending plan, Cuban Medical Aid to Argentina, Chile to introduce 'virus-free' certificates and commercial flight…

Arts and Culture

Acting Almodóvar

Maria Delgado looks at the acting styles of one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most iconic directors and the importance of acting in Pedro Almodóvar’s work.

Music

Stand Still and Listen: The Vinyl Museum of Salsoteca

Music fans and dancers unite in their passion for Salsa's vinyl at London's Tate Modern 'Salsoteca' event

Arts and Culture

Indiscretion by Hannah Fielding

Hannah Fielding is an award-winning writer and published her first book, Burning Embers, in 2012. Since then, she has gone on to publish two more works, The Echoes of Love (2014) and Indiscretion (2015). Extensively travelled…

Music

Rumbero de Corazon by Dorance Lorza & Sexteto Cafe

The latest smooth salsa sounds from maestro arranger and vibrophonist Dorance Lorza

Food

Spanish Tapas

"Pae-lah and chor-itzo for me, matey!" Yes strange sounding impressions of Iberian cooking seem still to pervade the British psyche. Many people will have heard of tapas (difficult to go wring with that pronunciation),…

Film & Theatre

YULI (2018) – Born to Dance

YULI is a skilful adaptation by Paul Laverty (I, Daniel Blake) of the dancer Carlos Acosta’s life story as revealed in his autobiography 'No Way Home' Directed by Icíar Bollaín, the film conveys a sensitive intimacy…

Arts and Culture

10 Novels To Gift This Christmas

This list of books takes you from one corner of Latin America to the other with a special trip over the Atlantic to a lost town in the middle of Spain. We chose 9 books written by women authors in this selection where you'll…

Music

J Balvin's Fantasy Island Tracks

If you were stranded on a desert island, which tracks would you absolutely need, to get you through those times of despair? Man cannot live on sun and fish alone right? Our castaway, J Balvin, one of Latin America’s hottest urban…