Eduardo Galeano

Dive into South America’s Underground with Sello In-Correcto’s Latest Compilation

By Marco Pisciotti 25 September, 2018

Bogotá’s Sello In-Correcto recently released the third edition of its El Sudaca Contraataca compilation, a series of albums which bring together some... Read Article

The 15 Must Read Books For Anyone Travelling to Latin America

By Bennett Tucker 16 November, 2016

I can still vividly remember the weeks preceding my first excursion alone in Latin America, to Nicaragua and Honduras, in... Read Article

Five Best Books About Latin American History

By Ryan Schumacher 08 October, 2015

When I first saw Sounds and Colours ask for a list of the top books in Latin American history, I... Read Article

Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires 2015

By Monica Goldberg 10 September, 2015

The 41st Buenos Aires International Book Fair took place April 21 to May 11 at La Rural fairground and was... Read Article

In Memoriam: Eduardo Galeano

By Robbie Wilson 24 April, 2015

“Now I feel more than ever proud of having been born in America, in this shit, in this marvel”: an... Read Article

El Gol de Galeano

By Marco Canepari 21 April, 2015

Like the most of us, Eduardo Galeano had never been a footballer. Well, of course he played fútbol, but he... Read Article

Eduardo Galeano Acknowledges the Weaknesses of ‘The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.’

By Chris Mulholland 10 June, 2014

History and Eduardo Galeano have an intimate relationship. History offers Galeano timeless access to the scrolls that disentangle themselves across... Read Article

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

By Chris Mulholland 30 April, 2014

Imagine: a proud lion has been chased, shot and trapped by poachers who descended heavy-footed upon his land. The poachers... Read Article

REVIEW Calle 13 – MultiViral

By Nadia Reiman 22 April, 2014

Few albums are as well crafted and thought out as Calle 13‘s fifth record MultiViral. Through it, the hybrid rap/alt-rock/urban/experimental... Read Article

MIXTAPE ¡Oyé, Oyé! Candombe Uruguayo Mixtape

By Russ Slater 24 January, 2014

Last month we got an email from the Brazilian music/graphic design collective coletivoACTION telling us about a mixtape of Uruguayan... Read Article

Eduardo Galeano’s Children of The Days: A Calendar of Human History

By Ed Hart 29 April, 2013

Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Los hijos de los días), by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, illuminates... Read Article

Burnt Oranges. The Stream of Life – Dimensions of Exile

By Ilene Goldman 18 November, 2011

Like many of her contemporaries, Silvia Malagrino left Argentina in 1978 to escape the repressive military dictatorship. Three decades later, she filmed her return, reflecting her desire to know and remember her abandoned country, to find a way to be present and absent from the histories that haunt her.