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Belo Horizonte gets a Land Reform Farmers Market
Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) opens a rural market in Belo Horizonte city
THE EYES OF THE NIGHT at the Cervantes Theatre.
Directed by the Australian director and movement specialist Simone Coxall, the art production and mise- en- scène on the Cervantes stage of “The Eyes of the Night”, sets the tone of the production at a glance, having it…
Mexico: Informal Workers and the Pandemic
The story of Noe, a private driver and ambulant salesman, is that of many in Mexico left without an income or government help. It is left to informal neighbourhood based support to helps them get by.
GABY ACOSTA, EMMY-nominated Mexican costume designer makes an impression in Hollywood.
Talented first-generation Mexican costume designer GABY ACOSTA, has been rewarded with an EMMY nomination for ‘Outstanding Period Costume Design’ for her work on Taylor Sheridan’s acclaimed Western TV series ‘1923’.
Revolutionising the Black Economy
Adriana Barbosa is the entrepreneur and visionary behind Feira Preta - the festival celebrating the Black diaspora all over the world, which is today recognised as the largest Black culture and entrepreneurship festival in Latin…
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.
Gilberto Gil: “I’ve always felt I was in the best place I could be”
Thirty years after first seeing him in concert at the age of eight, Amaranta Wright comes face to face with the Brazilian music legend Gilberto Gil on his recent visit to London, and gets an insight into the man that inspired her…
SPAIN'S CULTURAL ARMADA IN LONDON
You'd have to be deaf not to notice the huge influx of Spaniards to London in recent years. Nowhere was it more evident that at this year's Latin US Awards, which witnessed a huge Spanish participation and success. Here…
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Many an author and musician have fallen to the seductions of the Latin Caribbean’s most intriguing island and bestselling author Rosanna Ley is no exception. Her latest novel Last Dance in Havana takes readers to the dusty dance…
“FEELS LIKE AN ITCH YOU CAN’T SCRATCH”
Featuring a stunning performance by Bahiano Wagner Moura (Narcos / Elite Squad), THE SECRET AGENT (O Agente Secreto-2025) by write /director Kleber Mendonça Filho opens a door to the tenuous aspects of life in Brazil and Recife…
Colombia: The Peace Agreement Three Years On
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Brazil’s MST: challenging power structures and the need for ‘historic patience’
In the wake of an alleged 'political coup' in Brazil, which has seen former left-wing president Ignacio Lula da Silva convicted and his successor Dilma Rousseff impeached, Movimento Sin Terra leader Gilmar Mauro…
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
Brazil, biting and botas de oro - Latin America's World Cup reviewed
The long-anticipated 'Copa das copas' in football's surrogate homeland did not disappoint - but nor was it the fairytale the home nation had hoped for.
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.........
The Stuff of Warriors - A Guide to Latin American Super Foods
Great ancient civilizations were built on them, so no wonder Latin America supplies most of the world’s many super-foods – products extremely high in nutritious value – now flooding into UK health stores. Most hail from the…
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The multi-award-winning theatre collective, EPHEMERAL ENSEMBLE are presenting ‘UPROOTED,’ their latest new show, at the New Diorama Theatre in London.
‘UPROOTED’, is a multidisciplinary show, politically challenging and visually exciting. It combines, sound, dance, visual effects, music and lights to immerse the audience in what is a moving experience. Corina J Poore talks to…
How Green Has Brazil's Olympics Been?
Brazil proclaimed that it would be hosting a Green Olympics. Despite some bright spots, the result was disappointing, our Brazil correspondent says.
'Salvavidas de Hielo' Jorge Drexler
Blasting away all things vacuous and inane in this world, the Uruguayan singer-songwriter delivers another sublime work of unique musicality and profound lyricism.
Mexico’s ‘Tren Maya’ railway: fat jaguars vs starving babies?
The AMLO government falls for the mega-development temptation
‘The Congress of the Disappeared’ BY Bernardo Kucinski (translated by Tom Gatehouse)
‘Brazil is a nation that has never truly reconciled with its past. Now more than ever, Brazilians are called to remember and use the past to fight for the future.’ Gianna Giordani reviews Bernardo Kucinski’s brand-new novella ‘…
Grupo 7 Dir. Alberto Rodriguez (2012)
A Spanish film about urban ‘clean up’ operations in the run up to staging international events, one which the Rio de Janeiro government members might want to watch
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.
The TransAtlantic Family
Family Atlantica are just that: a family. The band consists of British born Jack Yglesias, a producer and multi-instrumentalist, his wife Luzmira Zerpa, a Venezuelan traditional musician, singer and poet who has received…
Indigenous Brazilian electronic art comes to London’s British Academy
A fishing net that recreates the sound of the ocean. An earthenware pot that emits traditional stories and songs. A cocoon-like structure that pulses with light to the rhythm of your beating heart. These are some of the results…
THE LUKAS ARTS WINNERS
After two month of voting by the public and expert judges, here are the LUKAS Winners For Outstanding Contribution to Theatre, Film and Fashion
Women in Words: Books for International Women's Day
After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women's Day in New York City on February 28, 1909, German delegates Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, Paula Thiede and others proposed at the 1910 International Socialist Woman…
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?
NORTHERN SOUL
Travelling independently is the best way to see the natural beauty of the Dominican Republic, says Elizabeth Mistry
Latin America's Real Heroines
Women human rights defenders challenge the traditional gender roles that keep women in the domestic sphere. They often suffer the worst kind of smear campaigns, accusing them of neglecting their family or of being in search of…
FROM HIGHLIFE TO BAILE FUNK: The Rhythmic Bridge Between Accra, Salvador & London
London's club nights are vibrating with something ancient and new. It's a sound where the warm bells and brass of Highlife and Afrobeats collide with the pulsating, heavy bass of Brazilian Baile Funk—an intoxicating…
David Bisbal's Fantasy Island Tracks
If you were stranded on a desert Island, which tracks would you absolutely need to have to get you through those times of loneliness and despair? Man cannot live on sun and fish alone right? Our castaway, Spain's biggest…
WHERE TO EAT LATIN IN LONDON
There are many great Latin American Restaurants in London - from Argentine asado and Peruvian ceviche to Colombian chicharrón and Mexican mole. These are a few of our favourites from each genre.
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),…
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