Latin American Affairs

My first wish has come true... All the four countries of Mercosur (Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay ) are now in the quarter finals. ...

This article has been distributed by IANS newsservice and published in Indian media today. Here it is Football fidelity: An Indian diplomat’...

Amigos Argentinos.... A fan from the backwaters of Kerala is cheering for Argentina in his humble but colourful way by painting his autorick...

What is a Latino kiss? Latinos say it is the opposite of Australian kiss..... Here is a demonstration of Latino kiss... This is a scene from...

The first-ever Indian Fashion Show we organized on 24 March at Hotel Sheraton in Buenos Aires, was a spectacular success. It was attended by...

The author of this novel is Jorge Fernandez Diaz, the same who wrote La segunda vida de las Flores. This is the story of Fernandez, the jour...

In the elections held on 7 February, Laura Chinchilla was elected as the first woman President of Costa Rica. She was a Minister of Justice...

This is the fictionalised versión of the life of Juan Domingo Peron who was President of Argentina 1946-55 and later in 1973-74. After overt...

The story starts with a feather. A bright blue parrot feather falls out of the hat of Ella while riding a horse in Paris. Francisco Lopez ...

The previous two Argentine novels I had read this month were about middle class and rich people. But Combi is about the poor and marginalis...

The novel Las Viudas de los jueves ( the Thursday widows ) takes the readers into the country clubs of Argentina and gives an insight into t...

La segunda vida de las Flores- the second life of Flores - is a delightful novel which deals with love, affairs and emotions in a typical Po...

Last week I was in Punta Tombo ( near Puerto Madryn in Chubut province of Argentina),which has one of the largest colonies of Megallanic ( a...

The game between Dolfina and Ellerstina teams at the Argentine Polo Open yesterday was a Dream Game. The two teams had the perfect 40 handic...

From the bottom of the well to the top of Executive Tower – How Mujica, the guerilla fighter climbed out of his prison well to become Presid...

I have just finished reading this yet another extraordinary novel by my favourite Latin American writer Mario Vargas Llosa from Peru. The st...

This is the second book of the Argentine writer Tomas Eloy Martinez, I have read. Bruno Cadogan, a writer from New York arrives in Buenos Ai...

After having enjoyed Isabel Allende´s first autobiography ¨My invented country¨ in which she tells the story of her life in Chile, I was kee...

¨Victoria Ocampo – writer, feminist and woman of the world¨ is the book I have just finished reading. It is a 170 -page summary of the autob...