Latin American Affairs

On my recent ( 9-11 May 2009) visit to Nicaragua I took a travel companion with me. Guess.. a book on Nicaragua written by Salman Rushdie wi...

Pura Vida.. is how the Costa Ricans respond cheerfully when you ask them , Como esta ( how are you ). Pura vida literally means pure life. B...

It is Book Time in Buenos Aires... Books, authors and literary activities have captured the headlines of newspapers as well as the heads of ...

Dante Singh , Monica Singh, Jasbel Singh... Adrian Singh, Alfredo Singh, Yeeta Singh..... There are about three hundred such Argentine Singh...

El Pato- the duck - is Angel Cabrera, the 2009 US Masters Champion and the 2007 US Open Champion El Gato- the cat - is Eduardo Romero, the U...

Last week I was invited to the Fashion Show of the famous Argentine designer Monica Socolovsky at Hotel Sheraton. I was impressed by her new...

I was treated to a fiesta of ice blue ( blue is the clour of my inspiration) by the icebergs and glaciers in the Patagonia region of Argenti...

Yes.... this was one official duty I performed dutifully with the beautiful queens of Mendoza... with my heart, soul, mind and body and in t...

I have just finished reading the latest book of this favourite writer of mine from Dominican Republic. This time she has chosen a new theme...

Vegetarian Carnival... This is how I would describe the carnival parade I saw in Montevideo last Thursday night. No legs, no breasts, no mea...

I watched La mujer de mi hermano- my brother´s wife, last weekend. It is about Zoe, an attractive woman who has been married for ten years t...

I have just finished this latest offering by my favourite Latin American writer Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru- In Spanish the title is ¨Travesu...

Carnival in Argentina ? When I heard about it, I thought it might be an Argentine joke to make fun of the Brazilians. When I was told that t...

This is an autobiography of the Chilean author Isabel Allende. She has given a fascinating account of the people, her family and incidents w...

After the 2001 debt default, Argentina has been criticised, condemned and since 2002 has been kind of ex-communicated from the financial mar...