Latin America is well represented at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London this week. Pulsamérica’s Comment and Features Editor, Daniel Rey, caught up with Andreas Dalsgaard, director of…
The 2015 Human Rights Watch film festival comes to London next week with a strong Latin American representation. The festival is taking place from 18-27 March at the Barbican, the…
President Obama’s announcement of new measures that will thaw relations between the US and Cuba is both long-overdue, and a canny foreign policy ploy by the White House. For President…
Bolivia’s has taken the controversial decision to allow children to enter employment from the age of 10. Bolivia is the only country in the world that allows minors to work so…
With the release of the ‘Paddington’ film at the end of last month, it is a great moment to explore the cultural symbolism and meaning behind Michael Bond’s creation, in…
Spanish speakers all over the world are mourning the death of one of the most iconic screen figures of the twentieth century. Mexican Roberto Gómez Bolaños, known by his stage-name…
The mayor of the Colombian Caribbean city at the heart of the controversial plaque unveiled by Prince Charles last week, has stated that he wants to see the memorial removed….
Good news for Brazil’s democratic processes, and more tension and acrimony than the 2014 FIFA World Cup In July, Brazilians were denied a World Cup final against their bitterest rivals Argentina…
The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho – ‘Today I want to return alone’) is a heart-warming coming-of-age story revolving around the trials and joys of Leonardo (Ghilherme…
The BBC’s flagship magazine programme Top Gear was embroiled in further scandal over the weekend following a number plate used for filming in Argentine Patagonia. The programme-makers have denied trying…
The three key candidates in the Brazilian elections all have a great narrative behind them. The incumbent, President Dilma Rousseff, is a former guerrilla leader against the military dictatorship, and…
The American continent is a hard one to divide up. What constitutes Latin America? Everything south of Rio Grande/Río Bravo - the US-Mexican border? But then what about the unique…
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos Calderón was re-elected on 15 June with nearly 51% of the vote in the second-round run-off against challenger Óscar Iván Zuluaga. But President Santos is…
“The atmosphere is tense and a revolution may be brewing”. From 1952, this was ‘Che’ Guevara’s reflection on Colombia, as recorded in his Motorcycle Diaries. At that time, rural areas…
Political polarisation is coming to Colombia. In fact, it is already there. For years a major problem affecting the quality of Colombia’s democracy has been the lack of political opposition….