Our music critic highlights songwriters refashioning high-flown poetic themes—and the low rhythms of the double bass.

The country’s achievements towards gender parity are outstanding, writes AS/COA’s president and CEO in the new issue of Americas Quarterly.

A new book tracks the civil strife and botched U.S. policy behind decades of mass migration. But now, the patterns are shifting.

Femicide—the killing of women—is the subject of Patrícia Melo’s experimental novel, set on the edge of the Brazilian rainforest.

Last year AQ reported on Uruguay’s imperfect success story. This year an election will yield a verdict on the pace, and direction, of its reforms.

Diego Ontaneda Benavides’s organization trains teenagers, most from marginalized communities, into budding changemakers.

Saúl Armendáriz’s 1990s breakout was dazzling. But a new biopic substitutes Hollywood glitter for real-life complexity and depth.