This selection of recent releases features desert-inspired guitars from Ecuador, folk wisdom from Chile and tongue-in-cheek Brazilian wordplay.
Arts & Culture
Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s “Utama” looks at the human side of environmental crisis in the Bolivian highlands.
In a darkly humorous collection of stories and “crónicas,” the Mexican writer channels life in this chaotic port city.
A Peruvian artist’s ghostly landscapes raise questions about objectivity and authority in documenting the region’s environment.
We dedicate this En Casa to musicians from Nicaragua, selected by guitarist Katty Mayorga, and the piano trio Longleash plays live in New York.
El Sol de Mendoza destaca "Abrázame cantando", una canción que Las Hermanas Abraham grabaron para la serie En Casa de Americas Society.
"Teetering between the real and the imagined, these objects [...] possess a ghostly, ephemeral aura," said the art publication in its May issue preview.