Georgina Jiménez assesses how London’s Tate Modern is exploring ‘Fridamania’.
Frida: The Making of an Icon
Tate Modern, London
25 June until 3 January 2027
Categories: Mexico, United Kingdom
Painting pain
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Category: Comment and analysis
Aztec bohemia
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A London bookseller’s visionary homage to the Beat Generation reveals how Mexico nurtured a cultural revolution
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Latin American academics at risk
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Carpe diem
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A long-forgotten Mexican film enriched the internationalism that distinguished Tito’s Yugoslavia
Categories: Europe, International, Mexico, North America, Yugoslavia (the former)
Latine rebellions and why they matter
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Llana Barber explores a history of uprisings in the US against a backdrop of systemic racism, reminding us as we observe Los Angeles that the weak never suffer in silence
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Puerto Rico, South America, United States
The roots of terror
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Comment: Walter Salles’ chilling warning about authoritarianism ducks the role of the US
Categories: Brazil, North America, South America, United States
Cry freedom
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Comment: Ireland knows a thing or two about anti-imperialism. Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard MP told the ¡Adelante! conference why its solidarity with Latin America is unshakeable
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Emilia (Pérez) in Paris
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A French director has committed a cultural crime against Mexico, writes Georgina Jiménez
Categories: Europe, France, International, Mexico, North America, United States
Who runs Argentina?
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Unmanageable debts will expose President Javier Milei’s neocolonial agenda, writes Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Argentina, North America, South America, United States
Backtracking on Bukele
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Biden’s policy reversal towards El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ exposes the cynical emptiness of the empire’s democratic vocation, writes Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, North America, United States