Soledad Fox, a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Williams College, recently published a biography of writer, politician and Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún (1923–2011). As the book is about to be published in English, she discusses her approach of 20th-century Europe through the biographical genre.

Council of the Americas will host a high-level, public consultations on Venezuela to discuss the current state of play and what comes next.

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski opened AS/COA's Latin American Cities Conference in Lima on October 26.