Latin America Archives - Page 25 of 460

Brazil: A Continent Within Another

I’m still deeply interested in remaining culturally Cuban, fully aware of the weight that the word “culture” carries.

Today’s featured band is Terra Samba from Brazil with the song Liberar Geral, title track of their 1997 album.

Arielka Juarez from Panama took our photo of the day: “Protector of Dreams”, in Panama City, Panama. She used a Xiaomi cellphone camera.

The CNE still hasn’t published the results of the 30,206 automated tally sheets from July 28, normally done withing 48 hours at most.

The released political prisoners know that other victims of injustice continue in the terrible condition of the Nicaraguan jails.

Today’s featured artists are Mexico’s Mariachi Vargas and US artist Linda Ronstadt with a performance of the song Los Laureles (1985).

My relationship with Brazilian culture was always more or less the same as most Cubans have, influenced by what I saw in the soap operas.

Extortion schemes are part of what press watchdog groups describe as an unprecedented government crackdown on the Venezuelan media.

Juan López: “It is not gold or silver or any of these metals which makes a nation wealthy, but it is the agriculture…”

Padura: in Cuba, the only option left is to leave, and 10 percent of the population has already done so in the last three years.