Entre Telones y Pantallas
A Brazilian film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund that uses nonlinear storytelling to show how children are drawn into gang violence in Rio’s favelas, earning 4 Academy Award nominations.
What is City of God?
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?
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?
This Afro-Uruguayan Carnival parade in Montevideo features competing comparsas performing candombe rhythms in a street procession centered on traditional drumming.
What is the Desfile de Llamadas?
This Chilean poet is celebrated for Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, published when he was only 19 years old; he later won the Nobel Prize in 1971.
Who is Pablo Neruda?
This 1987 biographical film, directed by Luis Valdez, became the first all-Latino-billed movie to surpass $100 million at the global box office.
What is La Bamba?
This writing system, developed by the Maya, was one of the most sophisticated in the ancient Americas.
What is Maya script or Maya hieroglyphs?
Shared by Bolivia and Peru in the Andes mountains, this is the highest navigable lake in the world, long considered sacred by Indigenous civilizations.
What is Lake Titicaca?
Born in the Caribbean region of Nicaragua, this festive explosion of color and dance is an Afro-Caribbean celebration that pays homage to the onset of the rainy season and new land in May.
What is the Palo de Mayo?
This 2010 Nobel winner used the "Boom" technique of non-linear timelines in his 1969 title Conversación en La Catedral, a fictional examination of Peruvian politics under the dictatorship of Manuel Odría in the 1950s
Who is Mario Vargas Llosa?
A traditional Nicaraguan satirical drama known for blending music, dance, and theater to mock Spanish colonial authority through the clever trickster figure of El Güegüense. Originating in the colonial era, it remains a key expression of Nicaraguan cultural identity and is recognized by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
What is El Güegüense?
The Inca state religion centered on worship of this sun deity, considered the ancestor of the emperors.
Who is Inti?
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?
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?
In 1967, this Guatemalan author won the Nobel Prize for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America.
Who is Miguel Ángel Asturias?
A Guatemalan film directed by Jayro Bustamante that follows an Indigenous Kaqchikel girl living near an active volcano who is pushed toward an arranged marriage within traditional community expectations. It is notable as the first film ever produced in the Kaqchikel language and won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
What is Ixcanul?
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?
This nation shares the island of Hispaniola and contains the Caribbean’s highest peak, Pico Duarte, which rises over 10,000 feet above sea level in the Cordillera Central mountain range.
What is the Dominican Republic?
Commemorating a 1658 volcanic eruption in El Salvador, this August 31st festival in Nejapa reenacts a legend in which Saint Jerome battled the devil with fireballs as the lava flowed down from the volcano into the village.
What is the Bolas de Fuego?
In 1967, this Guatemalan author won the Nobel Prize for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America.
Who is Miguel Ángel Asturias?
A Dominican film directed by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias that follows a rural gardener named Alberto who returns home for his father’s funeral and becomes entangled in a violent conflict over justice and revenge. Blending realism with moral allegory and stylized documentary techniques, it earned recognition at the Sundance Film Festival.
What is Cocote?
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?
On this Puerto Rican island, Mosquito Bay is considered one of the brightest bioluminescent bays in the world, glowing vividly when disturbed by movement in the water.
What is Vieques?
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?
This Panamanian historical novelist wrote the 2004 title El caballito de oro, which focuses on the construction of the world's first transcontinental railroad.
Who is Juan David Morgan?