Latin American Affairs

I saw La ley de Herodes ( Herod's law) , yesterday. It is one of the best Mexican films I have seen. It is a political comedy about the ...

These days there are lunches, dinners and cocktails almost every day to bid farewell to the most visible, read and heard foreign Ambassador ...

This is being organised by the Brazilian consulate in Mumbai in collaboration with St. Xavier’s college, Mumbai. It includes a photographic ...

Luisa Valenzuela is the third Argentinian author for me. First I tried Luis Borges but I found his books too heavy. I put him in my list for...

Salsa is becoming popular in India and salsa schools have come up in the metros of India. The most well organised school is Salsa-India run ...

According to a news report Salma Hayek, the mexican actress is going to act in five hindi films ( to be shot in english too simultaneously) ...

The prize for the best dissertation by the 2005 batch of Indian Foreign Service probationers went to " The reemergence of left in latin...

the leftist US-educated, young and popular president Rafael Correa and the charming foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa the Ecuator m...

Last sunday I was more nervous than Angel Cabrera , cheering for his victory at the American Airlines lounge at Miami. I am thrilled he won ...

This is my third visit to Bogota. The city is chique, elegant and charming. The climate is pleasant. The colonial part of the city is impres...

This was my first ever visit. I fell in love with Guatemalan city at the first sight( friends say ..i am prone to such accidents!). It is cl...

In this novel written in 1985, Fuentes has added the Gringo element to the Mexican complexity. The American school teacher Harriet Winslow g...

A bit of Brazilian spirit is taking over Delhi this week, thanks to the visit of President Lula's visit 3-5 June. He will receive the Ja...

This is a Romeo- Juliet type of predictable and simple love story. Ulises, a poor boy with painting talents, falls in love with a rich girl ...

This movie is a fictionalised account of how the drug trafficking started in Colombia, based on the life of the first drug lord Jaime Caiced...

This is the first-ever novel of Fuentes, written in 1958. In this book, the main character is the Mexico city itself. Fuentes takes the read...

The full title of the book is "The political economy of emerging markets- actors, instituitions and financial crises in Latin America...

The title of the book is " The third wave of democratization in Latin America- advances and challenges" edited by Frances Hagopian...

The book was a gift from the Mexican Ambassador Rogelio. This is the first book of the Mexican author Laura Esquivel, I have read. I found t...

This is the first film about native Indians of Andean region I have seen. It narrates the life of poor native Indians in the Andean region. ...