Margaret Garcia Meets Oswaldo Guayasamín: A De-colonial Experience
Enthusiasm and vivid memories seep across with joy from Chicana Artist Margaret Garcia as I sat in her colourful studio... Read Article
Pablo Neruda
Adam Feinstein’s Five Latin American Cinema Masterpieces
As the author of Pablo Neruda’s biography, Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life and an adviser on Neruda (Pablo Larraín’s recent biographic feature film), we... Read Article
REVIEW Neruda
“We were in a dazzling and secret world of nature which at the same time was a growing menace of... Read Article
Soundtrack to the Struggle / ¡Arriba las Mujeres! Playlist
“¡Ay, qué manera de caer hacia arriba y de ser sempiterna, esta mujer!” (“Oh, the way this woman has of falling... Read Article
Neruda Trailer: Gael Garcia Bernal Searches For Pablo Neruda In Latest Film from Pablo Larraín
Pablo Larraín’s latest film, Neruda, captures just over a year of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s life. Set from 1946-48... Read Article
REVIEW The Afectados
Director Mark Donne’s short documentary covers a 22-year-long battle for legal redress for what Amazon Watch, an independent environmental NGO... Read Article
A Postcard from the Feria Internacional de Libro de Santiago (FILSA 2014)
“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.” Pablo Neruda... Read Article
The Mapuche in Modern Chile by Joanna Crow
If the Mapuche people are known at all outside Chile, it is as the fierce Araucanian warriors that managed to... Read Article
Fightin’ Words: Chile’s Little-Known Literary War
La Guerilla Literaria begins on the streets of Geneva in 1992, a couple of years after the fall of the... Read Article
Story of a Death Foretold by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Story of a Death Foretold (subtitled The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973) is an impressive and highly readable account... Read Article
City Focus: Santiago, the City of Transition
In many ways Santiago is a patchwork city. Each commune, or barrio, with its own architecture and atmosphere. The modern... Read Article
Santiago Days (The Long Way Home)
As I write this I’m sitting in a Sao Paulo airport waiting for my flight connection heading home from my... Read Article