The photograph shows the hero of this tale, Roger Glenn, sometime in the late 1940s when he was five or six, learning to play ...

Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession and science… contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet in this collection of short stories from Bolivia. In ‘Kindred Deer’, the last of six short stories that ...

Whilst spending several weeks in Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, as part of an exciting research project exploring the socio-political effects of coca cultivation and cocaine ...

Whilst homemade music videos produced by the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) have been circulating around forums and YouTube for some years, there has been very little effort to ...

When it comes to ringing in the New Year, the soundtrack in Colombia often evokes nostalgia, with iconic Venezuela-bound orchestras like the Billo’s Caracas Boys and Los Melódicos setting the tone for ...

In 1975, Swiss anthropologist Jürg Ulrich Gasché emerged from the Colombian Amazon with an ancient indigenous percussion instrument called Yadiko; a trunk of 14 metres long to be played during a main ...

Alejo Carpentier’s 1949 essay on lo real maravilloso argued that the Americas were already marvelous in their reality, not because of fantasy but because history itself felt improbable. This wasn’t ...

Tent of Gypsy Passage (Tenda Caminho Cigano) is located in the working class town of Nilópolis, one and a half hours by public transport from Rio de Janeiro. I arrive there with my Brazilian friends ...

Latin America features world-class travel destinations and accommodations that visitors from the United States and Europe typically find quite affordable. If you’re thinking of enjoying an escape to a ...

Invented by Harold Rhodes in the recent era, digital piano is an alternative to the acoustic counterpart with almost the same construction and working method. Also known as electronic piano, the best ...

Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome please, from Los Angeles… LA LOM!

Tlaxcala may be the smallest of Mexico’s 32 states, but the beauty and energy of its Carnaval celebrations belie its size. Each year, many of its cities, villages, and neighborhoods participate in ...