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21 March 2019: Emblazoned on the wall of Spain’s National Drama Centre is Boa Mistura’s painting of an Eduardo Galeano quote from The Open Veins of Latin America: “We are what we do to change what we are.” (Photograph by David Silverman/ Getty Images) Considered a literary giant of Latin America’s Left, Eduardo Galeano was a novelist and journalist who wrote extensively about oppression and resistance in Latin America. In 1973, after a coup in Uruguay, Galeano was imprisoned and later went into exile in Argentina. When that country fell to a coup, his name was added to the death squ...

March 17, 2021 Former Barbados High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Reverend Guy Hewitt is questioning Government’s rationale for a number of recent diplomatic postings, given the global COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s present dire economic situation. Though complimenting the administration for establishing a long-overdue foreign mission on the African continent, he charged in an interview with Barbados TODAY that it was repeating the mistake of past administrations by not first presenting a foreign policy statement to Barbadians that explained the rationale for the miss...

COVID-19 Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Partnership Strategy for the Biden Administration In-Depth Research & Reports by Jason Marczak and Cristina Guevara Foreword From Mexico City to Manaus, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. In March 2020, families in Guayaquil searched for coffins to bury their loved ones. In April and May, Venezuelans who had fled the Maduro dictatorship were forced to return home after having lost their jobs i...

It is no exaggeration to call the March issue of Everybody’s New York Caribbean magazine Kamala-powered — driven by articles celebrating and discussing Kamala Harris, the first U.S. vice president with Caribbean roots.

th annual Caribbean Fine Arts (CaFA) Fair, which starts March 10, is taking virtual format. Countries represented in the fair include Barbados, the Bahamas, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. [. . .] From March 10 to 24, the work of over 70 prolific visual artists from the Caribbean and the Diaspora will be on display in a virtual gallery at caribbean.global, for the first time ever. During the same period, seven emerging Barbadian artists will take centre stage at the Central Bank of Barbados’ Exchange Interactive Cent...