Salut Les Cubains captures post-revolution Cuba through Agnès Varda’s curious and optimistic lens. Made up of 1800 photographs taken on a trip to Cuba in 1963, this film-photo-essay shows a moment four years after the revolution in which... Read Article
Fidel Castro, the long-time leader of Cuba, recently passed away at the age of 90. A supremely divisive figure, Castro is the perfect subject for a documentary. He has had an undeniable influence on the world at large,... Read Article
Directed by Nicolás Muñoz, Juntos y Revueltos offers an insight into El Mejunje de Silverio, a cultural centre located in Santa Clara, Cuba. El Mejunje is a unique place which hosts a variety of shows, concerts, performances and activities. However, its... Read Article
“Gabo was a superior being… With Gabo’s books you just want to keep reading and reading… His charm, his special way of seeing life.” Gabriel García Márquez, known as Gabo in the countries of Latin America, was the... Read Article
The concept of revolution is entwined with the history of Latin America to such an extent that the Spanish word ‘guerrilla’ has become part of the global lexicon, applied to insurgents all over the world. The 20th Century... Read Article
João Cerqueira’s The Tragedy of Fidel Castro is an amusing satire and parody on what happens when political fact meets political fable and turns surreal out of sheer exasperation. In a mere 168 pages, the reader stares through... Read Article
With Fidel Whatever Happens (Con Fidel Pase que lo Pase), directed by Serbia’s Goran Radovanović for Nama and See Film, is a stylised snapshot of Cuban life. If you are familiar with Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Ludwig... Read Article
In 2000, Ollanta Humala led an unsuccessful military rebellion against Peru’s then-President Alberto Fujimori. Six years later, the left-wing nationalist entered the political realm, losing to Alan Garcia in the presidential runoff.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna lost his life on the 9th of October 1967 at the hands of the Bolivian Army and the CIA in La Higuera, a very little village in the heart of Bolivia, where he... Read Article
South America has one of the largest concentration of States in the world that would call themselves socialists. Although there are other countries with left-wing governments, this political doctrine seems to have settled more strongly in this continent.... Read Article
