Despite countless books, documentaries and feature films about Latin America's most famous drugs lord, until now a word has never been publically uttered about Pablo Escobar by his family. Sixteen years after his death, now residing in Argentina, Escobar’s son has finally agreed to share his memories in Pecados de Mi Padre (Sins of My Father), a documentary by Argentine director Nicolás Entel. Due to be released in the UK shortly, here is an exclusive interview with Juan Pablo Escobar
In a country whose history simmers with political resistance and art, graffiti has come to reflect a post-modern merging of the two. Far away from the Banksy hype, we celebrate the art of Mexican political graffiti and the unrepressable spirit of a people
Salsa promoters and musicians alike are lamenting the demise of live Salsa music as a culture and commodity people will pay to see. Some even blame the salsa dance and club culture which, they say, got cliquey with its over-technical criteria and hierarchy. In this investigation we explore the issue and open up the debate for the first time. Where do you stand in it?
By chronicling the new generation of Latino-Brits in their party element, this oustanding photographer became THE documentarist of the urban latin movement in the UK and helped put urban latin culture on the map. Exclusively on Candela, we show her work in all its stages.
Ever since Yanet Fuentes, the only Latin American ever to grace the UK’s prime-time talent shows, left the BBC’s 'So You Think You Can Dance', the blogosphere has been awash with outrage at judge Sisco Gomez's comment. The Colombian-Brit’s conspicuously personal attack as Yanet opened the show apparently sealed her fate. Was it a case of protecting his spot as the UK danceworld's favoured Latin Diva? In her most revealing interview yet, Yanet gave us the inside story
Roberto Bolaño is being hailed as the best author to come out of Latin America in the past 40 years. Why, after years of success in Spanish, has the Chilean author only now come onto the English-language radar and does he live up to the new global hype...
Richard Gott, author of 'Land without Evil' and 'Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution' explains why Chavez' cultural policy is doing exactly what it should be in a social revolution.
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