Entre Telones Y Pantallas
In Mexico, this 1940s film era rivaled Hollywood in output and global influence, producing iconic stars and shaping cinema across Latin America.
What is La Epoca de Oro?
The Aztec Empire referred to its capital city by this name, often associated with a legend involving an eagle and a cactus.
What is Tenochtitlán?
This genre was founded by Nicaraguan author, Rubén Darío; his 1888 title Azul broke from traditional Spanish meter to introduce a more musical, rhythmic prose.
What is Modernismo?
The largest island nation in the Caribbean, it sits at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico and has played a central role in regional maritime history.
What is Cuba?
Celebrated annually on October 20, this commemoration marks the 1868 liberation of Bayamo during the Ten Years’ War, when citizens famously sang the composition that would become the national anthem, linking music and national identity.
What is the Día de la Cultura Cubana?
This 2013 film starring Eugenio Derbez became the highest-grossing Spanish-language movie in U.S. box office history.
What is Instructions Not Included or No Se Aceptan Devoluciones?
This network of relay runners delivered messages across the Inca Empire’s mountainous terrain.
What are Chasquis?
This 1922 title was the first major published poetry collection by Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral.
What is Desolación?
This country connects North and South America and contains a man-made canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, transforming global trade routes.
What is Panama?
This holiday, increasingly visible in U.S. school curricula and museums, features the construction of an ofrenda, an altar filled with photographs, marigolds, and favorite foods, to welcome the spirits of the departed.
What is Día de los Muertos?
This 2021 Disney film rooted in Colombian culture broke streaming records, and its viral song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” topped charts worldwide and became a cultural phenomenon.
What is Encanto?
This Inca engineering system of stonework allowed buildings in earthquake-prone regions to withstand seismic activity without mortar.
What is Inca ashlar stonework?
This title is the most famous survival of Maya literature, detailing the creation of man from corn and the myth of the Hero Twins.
What is Popol Vuh?
This South American flag is unique in the world because its obverse and reverse sides display different emblems, including a national seal and a treasury seal, both used for official state purposes.
What is Paraguay?
Celebrated on January 6th, this tradition is observed in various Latin American countries and in Latino communities across the U.S.; it honors the day the Magi presented gifts to the Christ child.
What is Día de los Reyes Magos?
An Argentine stage play by Roberto Cossa that uses dark humor and absurdity to portray a domineering matriarch whose control drives her family toward collapse, a work now regarded as one of the most influential and frequently studied pieces in Latin American theater for its sharp blend of comedy and social critique.
What is La Nona?
This Maya manuscript, one of the few surviving pre-Columbian codices, contains detailed astronomical tables used to track the movements of Venus.
What is the Dresden Codex?
In 2021, this nation saw its author Sergio Ramírez win the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor in Spanish letters, for titles like Margarita, está linda la mar.
What is Nicaragua?
Found in Argentina, this major compressed ice river continues to advance and is located in a vast southern ice field in the Santa Cruz Province.
What is Perito Moreno Glacier?
Recognized by UNESCO, this Corpus Christi tradition features masked dancers dressed as devils who perform ritual dances symbolizing the triumph of good over evil.
What is Diablos Danzantes de Yare?
This Cuban-born star of I Love Lucy pioneered the three-camera setup, filmed before live audiences, and revolutionized syndication by retaining episode rights, becoming TV’s first Latino mogul.
Who is Dezi Arnaz?
This specialized class of Inca officials was trained to create, read, and interpret knotted-cord records for administrative purposes, including census data, tax obligations, and labor quotas.
What are quipucamayocs?
This prize honors fiction translated into English. In 2021, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Los peligros de fumar en la cama) by Argentine author Mariana Enríquez was shortlisted for it.
What is the International Booker Prize?
This Central American country is defined by a landscape of 37 volcanoes and dense tropical rainforests, and is also home to Semuc Champey and a crater lake once described by the English writer and philosopher, Aldous Huxley, as “the most beautiful in the world.”
What is Guatemala?
Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan, this commemorative month begins on September 15th to coincide with the independence anniversaries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and runs through October 15th.
What is Hispanic Heritage Month?