Historically for Latino singers there were only two pathways to success in the United States: sing in English to tap into the existing market or sing in Spanish to grow a fan base until popularity has risen enough to switch over to singing in English. In 2013, artists like Pitbull, Prince Royce, and Romeo Santos were making it in the music industry by following a third path.
Junto a diversos investigadores, becarios de investigación y estudiantes de grado y posgrado de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, conformamos un colectivo de investigación, donde llevamos adelantes proyectos colectivos e individuales vinculados al desarrollo de la teoría social moderna y contemporánea, con el objetivo de desarrollar y profundizar categorías analíticas que permitan reflexionar y analizar un conjunto de procesos sociales, económicos y políticos en América Latina.
Overshadowed by the more well-known Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the town of Oruro, Bolivia hosts its own lively event each February. Over 100,000 people come each year for the festivities. Carnaval in Bolivia is an annual “communal celebration of life” which happens right before the Catholic season of Lent. This time also happens to line up with the seasonal celebration of the awakening of new life; when Bolivia’s altiplano turns from brown to green.
Salsa y Control [2](1996) del periodista y escritor venezolano José Roberto Duque es un texto híbrido, que procede de modo fragmentario, trabajando con letras del cancionero popular caribeño y relatos de escenas de la vida cotidiana de los barrios urbano-marginales
El debate en torno al papel de los intelectuales tiene un lugar central en el Boomde la Literatura Latinoamericana. Por un lado, porque es un momento en que los escritores saltan a la esfera pública e intervienen en ámbitos que exceden o literario. Por otro, porque ha sido uno de los temas que ha ocupado a la crítica en su afán de adscribir el fenómeno al mercado o a las circunstancias políticas de América Latina.
After years of mainstream media silence El Salvador is back in the news. Heralded as a success story in the early 1990s, El Salvador was celebrated as a model of a “negotiated revolution” (Karl 1992) with the signing of United Nations brokered Peace Accords on January 16, 1992 between the right wing Salvadoran government and the insurgent Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). More than twenty years later, a different story erupted. By the summer of 2014, U.S.
