Culture and Media

The open minds of Latin America thank you for your caress, the lullaby, the silence, the pause. We thank you for giving our dreams a compass, for giving names to the days, for putting a face to the faceless. All…

He may oppose the censorship to movies, but remains concerned about the obscenity and violence in the alternate media space. Being a master filmmaker of the country, Adoor Gopalakrishnan maintained his stand against the film censorship as the Padma Vibhushan…

South African Democratic Teachers Union is calling for the re writing of history books for schools. The Union said this recently through its Secretary General Mr. Mugewna Maluleke that South African history should be re-written by Africans without the Western…

Used to be, when I flipped channels, I’d go from one movie to another, one drama to another, one news show to another, etc.  These days, I’m more likely to go from one commercial to another—and more likely than not,…

This is the basic premise that has motivated the idea and subsequent preparation of Pressenza’s new image. The logo of an anthropomorphic figure made up of different shapes and colours, synthesises the concept of the diversity of human beings. From…

Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano and leading leftwing intellectual has died, he was 74. Galeano was best known for his 1971 anti-imperialist work, Open Veins of Latin America, which details Latin America’s exploitation at the hands of foreign powers, beginning with…

Montevideo, Uruguay, April 13 (Andes).- Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, an icon of the Latin American left who chronicled the region’s injustices in a career that spanned decades and crossed genres, died Monday at age 74. Galeano, whose 1971 essay “Open…

One of Latin America’s most acclaimed writers, Eduardo Galeano, has died at the age of 74. The Uruguayan novelist and journalist made headlines when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave President Obama a copy of his classic work, The Open Veins…

Havana, April 13 (Prensa Latina) The death of Eduardo Galeano shocked today to Cuban narrator Marilyn Bobes, who considered the Uruguayan writer the best interpret of Latin American reality. Famous Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano Dies Winner of the Casa de…

South Africa- The accompanying photo above shows a typical scene of our vulnerable youth which is seen at any corner of any township, shopping centre or rural villages of the country. All as busy as a bees sniffing what is…