Andy Palacio is a tough person to pin down. After all, he is the reputed “King of Punta Rock,” the driving dance beat from Belize that, believe it or not, can incorporate the fast tempo of Merengue, the swinging groove of Zouk, the thumping backbeat of Soca, and a range of other Afro-Caribbean and African forms. 

Pedro Reyes works within a complex system of associations that defies our assumptions about the ways in which knowledge is categorized and legitimized. 

Francisco Goldman I imagine that we should begin with a few words about what is happening today in Guatemala. Hurricane Stan, the flooding, the terrible loss of lives, the general calamity that is going to sink people even deeper into lives of inescapable poverty. What did Guatemala do to deserve so much suffering?

Pablo Vargas Lugo’s enigmatic works—colorful collages, formalist drawings and site-specific installations—explore such diverse themes as the extinction of dinosaurs, natural catastrophes and flying machines.l

Cuba and the night. One, the night of Martí. The other, the night of Fidel. And you, like everyone, determined to narrate the Island. Making your way through the fog. With infinite ambition.

Of all the Mexican writers of my generation, Sada is the one I most admire, for his highly rigorous technique, the unequaled density of his prose, his steel-solid aesthetic sensibility.

Beto Gómez is an outsider. 

Cuba and the night. One, the night of Martí. The other, the night of Fidel. And you, like everyone, determined to narrate the Island. Making your way through the fog. With infinite ambition.

At first, the objects flying past the window were newspapers and plastic bags, which would have been nothing out of the ordinary in autumn if we hadn’t been on the third floor.

Two things to mention: 1) I am going to speak with my wife, two years after the last time. 2) My wife is dead; she died two years ago, in odd circumstances.

If his wife had not been dead, they would have cleaned the dining room windows together. They had only been renting the apartment for five years when she fell down the stairs and fractured her cranium.

John Phillip Santos on painter Rolando Briseño’s cosmic scale and his use of “color in motion.”

Tamara Diaz Bringas on how Priscilla Monge’s provocative multimedia pieces and installations explore love, aggression and the complexities of power struggles and relationships.
Translated from the Spanish by Ezra Fitz.

Frances Richard on how Laureana Toledo’s installations and photographs accompany and reinterpret pieces of music and literature.