The hotel where Marlene Dietrich peed in a bucket of sand. Where Lady Di swam alone, so far from Prince Charles. Where Janis Joplin (supposedly) went skinny dipping and was thrown out. Despite so many legends and such magnificent service, there’s really only one essential thing: the soul of Río de Janeiro
The Italian thinker and activist, a reference for the libertarian left, discusses his essays on contemporary slave labor and the tyranny of work with EL PAÍS. He believes that humanity is going through mass psychosis and urges us to imagine ‘a cure’ for our disease… if it has a cure, that is
Persecuted by the police and popularized on the streets of the Caribbean island, a subculture emerged in the mid-1990s that is now sweeping the world. EL PAÍS visited the home turf of reggaeton, to meet the movement’s old and new heroes
The writer Jaime Bayly novels the blow that broke the friendship between the Nobel Prize winners
The Colombian queen of reggaeton has worked very hard to reach the top. She is a beast of her time. In art, business and narrative. Known as ‘La Bichota,’ she is a proponent of money, sex and feminism. With her latest album about sentimental breakups – ‘Mañana será bonito’ (Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful) – the star from Medellín’s ‘big bang moment’ has arrived
Nicknamed ‘The Gentleman of Salsa,’ the veteran bandleader is touring Europe and shared his thoughts on the current boom of Latin music
Cuba has approved same-sex marriage, an advance in rights that nonetheless does not erase the Castroist repression of diversity in the 1960s
The 92-year-old woman worshiped her late father, Ante Pavelić, whose regime was responsible for the genocide of more than 300,000 people in the Nazi puppet state of Croatia. Before her death, she invited us into her home where there was no remorse, only a deeply entrenched hatred
In addition to Francisco Franco, the Spanish capital is the resting place of four other autocrats, including Rafael Trujillo from Dominican Republic and Fulgencio Batista from Cuba
The Cuban government has approved changes to the constitution that would allow gay couples to be married
Cautious optimism among US Cuban community as Fidel’s brother Raúl prepares to hand over presidency
Patricia Rivas Puerta, from La Rioja, recounts to EL PAÍS the hours leading up to the horrific Florida school attack
Fifty years after revolutionary’s death, ex-CIA agent recalls informing Guevara he was to be shot
The Trump administration’s decision to end the so-called DACA program sparks widespread protests
Yulier Rodríguez Pérez insists his paintings are not political, but merely an attempt to make people think
Fans from all over the world have descended on the king’s home to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his passing
Millions of Americans could lose their health coverage if Republicans manage to repeal Obamacare. To many, this literally means the difference between life and death. Here are some of their stories
US president criticizes regime on Independence Day; Havana chides “millionaire-tycoon-turned-president”
Opposition activist Eliécer Ávila says authorities stole his computer after arrival at Havana airport
Despite thaw in relations, Ana Belén Montes looks set to serve last nine years of quarter-century sentence
The veteran leader will be stepping aside in 2018, but uncertainty reigns in the current climate
Carlos Giménez, mayor of Miami-Dade, now following order to hold detainees sought by federal authorities
Yunieski Marcos is the last Cuban allowed into the country under the end of wet foot-dry foot policy
Politicians, educators and activists say the move is detrimental in a country with 57 million Hispanics
The island remains under the supervision of a Washington-appointed fiscal oversight board
Two Spanish entrepreneurs become the first to bring animals to the United States for breeding
Economy is greatest challenge as country struggles to adapt to end of a political era