The Cuban women who whisper to cigar rollers
In the era of ChatGPT, a traditional trade continues in Havana. Women read songs and novels aloud to the workers who hand-roll cigars, while also answering their questions
Che, Fidel and Christopher Columbus
Statues come and go on the streets of Mexico City, whether people put them up or authorities take them down
My return to a Cuba I no longer recognize
No one believes in the revolution anymore. The Díaz-Canel government does not inspire any affection or respect. The country produces almost nothing, and Trump has imposed new sanctions just when Cubans couldn’t imagine life getting any worse
Vincent Bevins: ‘The elites have discovered they can govern us without legitimacy’
Tahrir Square in Egypt, the 15-M movement in Spain, Occupy Wall Street in New York… Perhaps the most iconic image of the 2010s is that of streets taken over by massive protests. These days, it’s almost impossible to find any trace of them. Journalist Vincent Bevins tries to explain what happened to those days when the world seemed to be on fire
Walter Salles, the filmmaker (and billionaire) who won Brazil’s first-ever Oscar
The director of ‘I’m Still Here,’ heir to the founder of the largest bank in Brazil, boasts a distinguished career, numerous film awards, and a remarkable fortune
St. Pauli, the ‘kult’ team that admires Che Guevara and the Zapatistas, returns to Germany’s soccer elite
Throughout its history the team from Hamburg, known as ‘the most progressive in the world,’ has maintained friendships and cultural ties with several Latin American countries
Víctor Díaz Caro, the ex-guerrilla who tried to assassinate Pinochet: ‘The tortures I went through are just workplace accidents’
Now a cameraman for Spanish broadcaster TVE having taken refuge in Paris after escaping from prison in 1990, the former Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front fighter tells the story of the attempt on the Chilean dictator’s life
Rafael Correa: ‘The Ecuadorian government is infiltrated by organized crime’
The former president argues that his opponents will not be able to defeat his candidate, Luisa González, in the presidential runoff on October 15
Gary Prado, the Bolivian soldier who captured Che Guevara, dies at 84
The man who ended the revolutionary career of the guerrilla leader in 1967 retired as a general and was later a political figure and writer