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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 ...
Summer comes but once a year... and thank heavens for that. Quite apart from my prezidential affairs of state, I've been so ...
This year’s BIME Bogotá was less about spectacle and more about substance. In between panels, one-on-one conversations, and ...
Women's health issues have become increasingly prominent on the international stage. One of the key topics of interest to ...
Latin American music in the last decade has swept the world with its infectious rhythms, beautiful lyrics, and melodies that ...
If your tía still insists on carrying groceries for the entire block or your tío is convinced he can still fix the roof ...
A toxic agro-economy: big ag fuels public health disasters in Argentina September 2023 marked the fourth anniversary of the 2019 explosion in Mercedes, Argentina, of an illegal agrochemical deposit ...
This affecting moment occurred when Fainguelernt was just ten years old – long before she became Ana Frango Elétrico (Ana Electric Chicken), the 23-year-old wunderkind whose 2019 sophomore album ...
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 history and culture, and they bring ...
With Chico Cesar partway through a European tour (dates in the UK, France, Germany and Spain are still to come) we wanted to shine a light on one of Brazilian music’s little-known gems with a ...
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 ...
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 ...