If you read one book about Latin America this coming year, make sure it is John Gibler’s Mexico Unconquered
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Tag: Women
Women on top
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Sin dejar huella, María Novaro’s Mexican Thelma and Louise, pulls off one of the most skilful feats in cinema
Categories: Mexico, North America
Food for thought
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It is time to put that hamburger down and take the Latino diet and its impact on US tastebuds seriously
Categories: North America, United States
The dictatorship of gender
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Argentine novelist Cecilia Szperling – whose Natural Selection has just hit the shelves – would prefer it if readers did not know the gender of a writer
Categories: Argentina, South America
Dreaming in Cuban
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Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
A woman’s place is in her movement
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Jane Jaquette brings readers interested in Latin American feminism up to date on why progress in some areas has been so limited
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, Uruguay, Venezuela
A musical voice
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Naomi Ayala’s observations of marginal lives reveal sadness and stillness, yet through poetry gain optimism
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
They can paint over the walls …
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Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca is a striking visual testament to the 2006 rebellion in the southern Mexican state
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Gender and the Mexican Revolution
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Revolutionary patriarchs prioritised their vision of social revolution over female emancipation
Categories: Mexico, North America
Terror’s celluloid legacy
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Constanza Burucúa’s study of how Argentine film-makers grappled with the ‘Dirty War’ confirms cinema’s importance to democratic culture
Categories: Argentina, South America