Latin American Affairs

Young Indian men are excited by the ¨Intel inside¨ sign on the computers which have opened a new window of opportunity for them to connect t...

Ciudad del Este.. ?????......hmm ... Most Indians have never heard of this city nor would they know where it is located. But there are about...

This is the biography of Jorge Luis Borges, the iconic writer of Argentina and one of the preeminent Latin American authors whose works have...

The economic survey of 28 August 2008 issued by the Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean ( ECLAC) is positive and optimisti...

This is the story of Eva Peron after her death. Yes, it is about the life-story of her corpse. The embalmed body of Evita had an eventful ...

I saw today the film ¨Un novio para mi mujer ¨- a boyfriend for my wife, which was released on 14 august. This is the story of the misery of...

Fernando Lugo wore sandals and a simple white shirt and trouser for the ceremony of his inaguration as President of Paraguay on 15 August, w...

I skiied in Bariloche last weekend. The Catedral mountain ski resort of Bariloche is a different experience from Las Lenas, where i had gone...

I saw this 2004 release yesterday. This film is based on the real-life story of Olga Benário, a German whose destiny is linked to Brazil. O...

The reason why Graham Greene is coming into this blog, rather than in my other blog " Floating Weed" is because this novel, "...

This is the first and only Argentine film which has won an Oscar award . It won in the foreign language category in 1986. I had been looking...

U.S.-Latin America Relations - A New Direction for a New Reality This is the title of a report published in May 2008 by the Council on Forei...

According to Observer newspaper of UK, one of the fifty sport events one should watch in life is a super classic game between Boca Juniors ...

They call this as the valle de la luna ( moon valley ) because it looks like the lunar surface. It is 300 km from San Juan city in the provi...

I was there at the premiere of the film El Nido vacio - empty nest- yesterday at Village Cinema. It is a film about a couple, who find the h...

Fernando Lugo was elected in the elections held on 20 April. It was not surprising, since he had been leading in the opinion polls for the l...

I have just received a copy of this book in Portuguese ( India: da miseria a potencia") , which was launched on 25 March in Sao Paulo. ...

Luisa Valenzuela, the Argentine writer has used the setting of Manhattan for her Argentine hero to roam around, get lost and confuse himself...

Thousands of Argentine souls visit India seeking greater wisdom and deeper understanding of spirit. The Argentine visitors dip in the Ganges...

This is the second novel of the Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela that I have read. The first one" Clara" was a simple and straigh...