Let's talk Latin America
Let's talk Latin America
Raquel Rivas Rojas visited to talk about her latest book, Muerte en el Guaire. Zara Huband heard her speak. It is the river Guaire in Caracas that links the stories in Raquel Rivas Rojas’ latest book, Muerte en el Guaire. Through the bodies being washed up on the river’s shore, Rojas connects the people of Venezuela […]
Lucie Edwards introduces us to Venezuelan participative kinetic art Last June, a series of Latin American kinetic and visual artists were showcased in the Royal Academy of Art in London, under the title ‘Radical Geometry.’ The exhibition aimed to bring together twentieth-century revolutionary art from various Latin American artists from the Collección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. The […]
Eleonore Hughes reviews The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, a 2003 documentary focusing on events in Venezuela leading up to and during the April 2002 coup d’état attempt, which saw late President Hugo Chávez removed from office for two days. When Kevin Thomas from the Los Angeles Times reviewed this documentary as an “extraordinary opportunity to record history”, he […]
Bristolatino’s Politics editor Kwame Lowe discusses the political legacies of a generation of world leaders, including Cuba’s communist revolutionary Fidel Castro It has been almost impossible to ignore the recent news of Margaret Thatcher’s death, and given that she could reasonably be called the most controversial politician in modern British history, reactions have been expectedly mixed. […]