Several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will receive this year the travelling film festival “Cinema and Environment” sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The festival includes full-length and short films by the International Environmental Film Festival (FICMA) and UNEP. The main topic will be the environment and man’s relations with the natural, social and cultural environment. Read Article
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An acclaimed documentary that shines an unflattering light on Mexico’s secretive legal system was back in the country’s theaters Wednesday after an appeals court overturned a judge’s order blocking screenings. Read Article
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The choice of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa to inaugurate Argentina’s annual book fair is turning into a political challenge for President Cristina Fernandez. Read Article
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TV and radio journalist Peter Deselaers has been in Bolivia on behalf of DW-AKADEMIE since mid-2010. He talks about the media situation there and his work in this Andean country. Read Article
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Brazil’s famous Carnival celebration may steal the world’s attention, but an equally riveting spectacle in Bolivia this week melds indigenous and Christian traditions, and has the devil at the centre of the action. Bolivia’s Carnival of Oruro is second only to that of Rio de Janeiro among the world’s riotous celebrations in the days preceding […]
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Buried beneath a lake in Guatamala sits a fortune in lost treasure — Mayan gold to be precise — and a group of German archaeologists has just set off to find it. Their only guidance, a freshly decoded ancient book containing a map to the treasure. Read Article
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Japanese researchers have discovered 138 more hills and lines in Peru near the world-famous Nazca lines and geoglyphs. The purpose of the formations, thought to have been created more than 2,000 years ago, is unknown. Read Article
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Ford has used a special testing laboratory to ready its 1.6-litre turbo engines for Rally Guanajuato Mexico. The gravel event located in Leon, 400 kilometres north-west of the capital Mexico City, features stages that climb to more than 2700 metres above sea level, making it the highest event on the 13-round WRC calendar. Read Article
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Revalue Oldest] convert lofts the old houses of traditional neighborhoods, such as Republic, Yungay and Eighteen, it is fashionable. The projects are targeted to young professionals who value the restoration of buildings and neighborhoods with history. Read Article
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The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) Irina Bokova will pay an official visit to the southern Cusco region and know the progress made on the protection and conservation of Machu Picchu, Regional Director of Culture Juan Julio Garcia said. Read Article
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Warring drug cartels fighting for turf in Mexico seem to be winning a battle for the hearts and minds of many young people enticed by the power, money and flashy images that glamorize the narco lifestyle. Songs that glorify drug lords, movies about their exploits and social networks offer a seductive view of a violent […]
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On the tiny, legendary Pacific speck of land known as Easter Island, located 2,000 miles from the Chilean coastline, the ongoing non-violent protests being staged by the Hito family at the Hotel Hanga Roa came to a climax on Sunday February 6, 2011. Fifty armed members of the Chilean national police force (los Carabineros) mounted […]
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Air accidents have claimed a disproportionate amount of talented football teams and players over the last sixty years. Peru suffered a heartbreaking loss in 1987 as Adam Brandon explains. Alianza Lima, formed in 1901 by horse stud workers of Italian heritage, are Peru’s oldest professional football club. Since their first championship in 1918, Alianza have […]
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Tougher entrance exams for higher education, to be applied in the next academic year in Cuba, are worrying families who see getting into university as a major achievement for their children. “These young people have been raised with the idea that it is important to go to university,” Sandra Álvarez, the mother of 18-year-old Lisandra […]
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“In my family, they always saw me as a girl, but at school they called me by my boy’s name, which is why I dropped out,” Paula Sosa, a transvestite who recently managed to change her name on her identity document, told IPS. Sosa’s case appears in a campaign launched in 2010 by the Association […]
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A controversial iPod and iPad application that makes a game of the perils of sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico border has sparked controversy among activists for immigrant rights. Read Article
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The Brooklyn Museum is preparing to give about 5,000 pre-Columbian artifacts in its collection to Costa Rica as part of a housekeeping move to trim its vast holdings. Read Article
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Quechua, the official language of the Inca Empire (Tahuantinsuyo) is being taught at some 25 universities across the United States and Canada, being favorably received by students residing in those countries as well as by Peruvians. Read Article
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The firing of a prominent journalist from her radio show has stirred a debate over freedom of expression in Mexico and allegations that the government still holds sway over the media. Read Article
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The nearly 200 theatres in the Argentine capital have been staging an increasing number of plays exploring gender identity or specifically gay issues in recent years, in mainstream, fringe and state-run productions. Read Article
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The messages are heard again in the Ecuadorian province of Sucumbios border. The armed group makes the invitations through the radio “Voice of the Resistance ‘, said Saturday the Ecuadorian newspaper’ The Universo ‘ “In a few weeks the station has penetrated guerrilla clearly in villages that are located along the border,” he says. Read […]
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Expect the menu to be on the red-blooded side, writes Ute Junker. Favourite flavours This is cattle country and you’ll find “bife” on every menu: from asado (barbecue) to bife de chorizo (sirloin steak) or even stuffed in an empanada – which is what locals call a meat pie. Argentina is the fifth-largest producer of […]
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In a land uniquely suited to simple pickup trucks, Argentines use a homebuilt contraption of Borgward, wood, and artisan panels called the Rastrojero.It’s the sort of truck that makes the casual observer instinctively develop tender feelings. Some of it is down to the average Rastrojero’s advanced age: even the newest examples on the road are […]
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For generations there are those who jealously guard their ethnic traditions, but they usually share with the world. So Dionisio de la Cruz Hernandez has lived for 40 years for 68 of his age.He has participated in the feast of the town for 20 years. His life is in this community where it is responsible […]
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He who cooks faster, gets the customer, as a fast food war is underway in Costa Rica, as fast food companies vie for customers and market share. Consumers are being bombarded with all kinds of advertising, from billboards, to flyers to newspaper and television ads and special pricing offers to get their share of customers. […]
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Rattanbir is the name of the first virtual art gallery, which will open on Thursday 24 February, which aims to promote the art through the Internet to expand the art market in Ecuador and elsewhere. Read Article
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With a wooden spoon in hand, Hortencia Rómulo briskly stirs the amber-coloured liquid cooking in an enormous steel pot. “It has to reach a heavy boil so that the water evaporates, leaving the syrup,” Rómulo, 45, an indigenous Otomí woman, told Tierramérica, explaining the process for turning the nectar of the maguey, or pulque agave […]
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Guadalupe Pena’s great grandparents began working with horses when La Hera ranch still lay in fields outside Mexico City. Now it is surrounded by graffiti-covered walls and barred windows but, behind its metal gate, offers hope where hospitals have failed. Read Article
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The BBC has apologised to the Mexican ambassador over remarks made on Top Gear. Skip related content BBC apologises over Top Gear’s insult to Mexico Enlarge photo .But the corporation defended the show’s presenters, who branded Mexicans “lazy”, “feckless” and “flatulent”, saying making jokes about national stereotypes was part of British humour. Read Article
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Two years ago, when Los Angeles businessman Alejandro Viecco visited the agave-fields surrounding the Mexican town of Tequila—where the eponymous liquor is made—he made a startling discovery. The process of making tequila, it turns out, can be as messy, smelly and disgusting as the aftermath of drinking too much of it. Read Article
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Recovering arrears due to lack of raw materials and disruptions in electric service is the main objective of workers of the tobacco factory “Lazaro Peña” of Jobabo, in the eastern province of Las Tunas. The work rate now exceeds eight hours set for each day, and covers non-working Saturdays and some Sundays. Read Article
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TORRONTÉS has been touted as the hottest thing to arrive from Argentina since the tango. Or at least since malbec. It’s a grape, and a white wine, and some say it will be as popular in the United States as pinot grigio. Read Article
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Brazil monitors many such tribes from the air, and they are known as “uncontacted” because they have only limited contact dealings with the outside world. Photographs of the same tribe were released to the world two years ago. Campaigners say the Panoan Indians are threatened by a rise in illegal logging on the Peruvian side […]
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Bolivia will demand the World Health Organization (WHO) to spread the results of the study on coca leaf in 1995, to give everyone a real insight into its properties. According to the research, coca leaf chewing is not harmful to human health and therefore the WHO recommended then further research to identify the properties of […]
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Since recovering part of their territory in 2005, an indigenous Guaraní community in the northeastern Argentine province of Misiones is working to maintain and expand a cultural tourism initiative. On about 265 hectares located a 20-minute drive from Iguazú Falls and 10 kilometres from the Argentine city of Puerto Iguazú, people in the Yryapú community […]
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Every day Costa Ricans leave behind their cheque book preferring their computer to make payments and transfers of funds. According to the Banco Central de Costa Rica (BCCR), the use of cheques has dropped 12% over the past year. Read Article
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Farmers’ protests and the rise in corn tortilla prices in late December put temporary brakes on the Mexican Senate, which was preparing to lift the national ban on utilising maize to make fuel alcohol, or ethanol. Read Article
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It’s a long way from Malibu: Bolivian artisans are dressing up a Barbie-inspired doll in clothing typical of the Andean nation’s indigenous heritage. Forget the hair always being blond, the heels high and the skirt a flirty pink. This doll’s locks are sometimes black and woven into braids, and she wears low black shoes, a […]
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A brick from The Cavern Club, a check for 11 pounds signed by Ringo Starr, an “authentic” Beatles wig. These and thousands of other objects related to the “Fab Four” are luring Beatles fans to a new museum in Buenos Aires. Read Article
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Mexico will on Monday become the first country to start using iris scans for identity cards, according to the government. Iris recognition is increasingly used in airports, controlling access to restricted areas, and prisoner bookings. The documents, which will include the eye’s image as well as fingerprints, a photo and signature, will be 99 per […]
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It took María de los Ángeles Carrillo, a native craftswoman from Mexico, eight months to weave a decorative junco reed basket, for which she won an 8,000 dollar prize from the Mexican government. The 32-year-old Carrillo, a member of the Kumeyaay Native American people, belongs to the Grupo de Artesanos Nativos de Baja California (Group […]
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Bolivia has embarked on an international mission to try to end the ban on chewing coca leaves. But the United States plans on getting in its way. Coca has been used in the Andes for thousands of years as a mild stimulant and herbal medicine, but it is also a raw ingredient in the drug […]
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Bolivia, which is pushing for the decriminalization of the coca leaf, launched a soft drink made from the plant Tuesday, the second of its kind. The drink, called “Coca Brynco,” was launched at an official ceremony in La Paz, emphasizing support from Evo Morales’s government for the venture. Read Article
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Fast-food chains began in 2011 with an eye on the opening of 20 new restaurants in the Greater Metropolitan Area of San Jose, Costa Rica. Representatives of McDonald’s, Quizno’s, KFC, Teriyaki, Subway, Wendy’s, A’s and Domino’s, have confirmed their plans. Read Article
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s government has urged a private TV station to pull the plug on a Colombian soap opera that features a dog named “Little Hugo” and which it says insults Venezuela’s national pride. Named for its main character, “Chepe Fortuna,” the program also stars a loud and gossipy secretary named “Venezuela.” Read Article
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The Chilean subsidiary of the French company(Edenred) has begun offering companies and government departments the ability to manage the benefit of their employees lunch with this technology. Read Article
A rare variety of chocolate bean, which vanished nearly 100 years ago in South America, returns this month to cafes around Portland, Oregon. Moonstruck Chocolate Co. has licensed the revived Pure Nacional cacao bean, recently rediscovered in Peru. The bean produced a fine chocolate enjoyed during the 19th century, but was thought lost to disease […]
A new way of sharing music has caught on in Argentina, with bands — both new and established — filmed in impromptu performances on rooftops or in markets and other public spaces in Argentina. The high-quality videos, which are shot in one single take, are then posted on the Internet. Read Article
Recorded Interview: Maguey Journey: Discovering Textiles in Guatemala Author Kathryn Rousso The name maguey refers to various forms of the agave and furcraea genus, also sometimes called the ecntury plant. The fibers extracted from the leaves of these plants are spun into fine cordage and worked with a variety of tools and techniques to create […]
If the Spanish-speaking world sent out a seasonal round robin covering the last decade, it would have plenty to brag about. Chile, Colombia and Peru became clubbable emerging economies, while the growth of internet pages in the world’s second-most spoken native tongue has hugely outstripped that of English. To cap it all, Granta has just […]
Belgian photographer Daniel Ritière presents a photographic exhibition titled ¡Lima se nos va! which will be held at Casa de la Literature Peruana (House of Peruvian Literature). The exhibition will show Lima’s architectural beauty as well as the abandonment and destruction of some of its mansions and monuments. Some of the 24 photographs show the […]
Outside the modest two-story adobe house, a flag of Ecuador flutters alongside a large sign that reads “Ikat: weaving demonstrations and sales.” Hanks of yarn and colourful fabrics hang from the handrail running around the edge of the courtyard and balcony, and weaving looms can be seen inside. This is the home of José Jiménez, […]
The first day of each year the festival of Takanakuy includes a punching and kicking event between members of the community. The festival takes place in the province of Chumbivilcas in the department of Cusco.
On December 10, 2010, the first recorded civil marriage between two gay men took place.
Convinced that receive the rejection of economic groups, the President of the Republic ratified on Saturday during the Citizen Link 201, emitted from the Plaza San Francisco, that the Ecuadorian people decide by referendum whether the events bullfights are still carried out in the country. Read Story
Casamidy is based in San Miguel de Allende, a bastion of colonial Mexico, but many of the company’s furniture designs are drawn from other cultures. Its new Hiver Opera side chair is an example. Read Article
Fearing that the obscure xylophone-like instrument could be a casualty as Afro-Colombian traditions disperse amid migration and other pressures, officials are taking steps to preserve and promote the unique music. View Story