Culture

Listen how the rhythm goes

25 de julio de 2021, 2:19

Oye cómo va (Listen how it goes)

By Charly Morales Valido, Chief Correspondent/San Salvador

Chicano hero of the electric guitar, Carlos Santana, responsible for tunes that we have heard over and over again without even suspecting that they are his celebrated his 74th birthday last July 20th.

Saint James Apostle's Day with new Spanish world heritage

Madrid, July 25 (Prensa Latina) Spain solemnly celebrated today Saint James Apostle's Day, with the good news that Madrid's 'Paisaje de la Luz' was chosen as a new Unesco world heritage site.

Listen how the rhythm goes

25 de julio de 2021, 2:19

Dominican Republic: Historic Jewel

By Edilberto F. Méndez

Chief Correspondent/Santo Domingo

Caption: The museum opened its doors more than four years ago.

The Juan Pablo Duarte Wax Museum, located where the independence hero lived in the Dominican capital, recreates the Santo Domingo of the mid-19th century, when the emancipation struggle occurred.

Film festival backs Mexico's diversity and indigenous languages

23 de julio de 2021, 0:15

Mexico, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) Several outdoor locations will host the Tulum International Film Festival, a space that constitutes a platform for the culture of native peoples, diversity and the environment.

Guatemala wins Platino film award nominations

Guatemala wins Platino film award nominations Madrid, Jul 19 (Prensa Latina) Madrid is celebrating three decades of Ibero-American rendezvous, with cinema as the star, after nominations for the Platino Awards, especially for the motion picture La Llorona, from Guatemala.

Picasso, next to El Greco, in Prado Museum

Picasso, next to El Greco, in Prado Museum Madrid, (Prensa Latina) Since today, Pablo Picasso's 'Buste de Femme 43' is hanging in the El Greco room of the Prado Museum in Madrid, a fact full of symbolism and somehow of justice.

Argentinean artists call for end to US interference in Cuba

Argentinean artists call for end to US interference in Cuba Buenos Aires, Jul 17 (Prensa Latina) Artists from the Argentinean city of Rosario who represent the so-called Frente Cultura en Movimiento (Culture in Movement Front) called for an end to the United States interference in Cuba, and demanded the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade against that country.

Keith Collection returned to Costa Rica

Por Alejandro Gómez

San José, (Prensa Latina) Costa Rica has only been able to recover 2,286 archaeological pieces from different indigenous cultures of the little more than 16,000 taken to the United States by American business executive Minor Keith, builder of the railroad in the Central America and the Caribbean.

Madrid pays tribute to Juan Padron's work

Madrid, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) Exaggeration, some would say, petulance would enunciate others, but the figure of Cuban cartoonist Juan Padron in the foreground at Casa de America in Madrid exceeded expectations.

Capital of Bolivia prepares 25th International Book Fair

Capital of Bolivia prepares 25th International Book Fair La Paz, (Prensa Latina) The organizers of the International Book Fair in the capital of Bolivia are preparing the agenda for its 25th edition that will take place under health protocols imposed by Covid-19, combining on-line and on-site events.