Articles tagged "latin america"

Sad news, kids: 83-year-old Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes died yesterday in Mexico City of an internal hemorrhage.

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Carlos fuentes, Carlos fuentes dies, El boom, Latin america, Writers

"The new find, written on the plaster equivalent of a modern scientist's whiteboard, strongly reinforces the idea that the Maya calendar projects thousands of years into the future."

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Archaeology, Calendar, Culture, Guatemala, Latin america, Mayas, Newly discovered maya calendar, The maya

Many Latin American countries are having problems with immigration and the way they're dealing with those problems isn't any better -- in fact, it might be worse -- than the red, white, and blue.

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Immigration, Latin america, Politics, Us

It turns out that the old wives' tale of the dad who paid a prostitute to take his son's virginity -- you know, to make him into a REAL man -- isn't a wives' tale at all! At least in Nicaragua it's not.

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Brothers, Latin america, Nicaragua, Sex

Diana Sanchez Barrios wants to be the first transwoman to occupy a seat in Mexico City's congress and, judging by the reactions of her barrio peeps, she has a good chance of getting it.

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Diana sanchez barrios, Latin america, Lgbt, Mexico city, Politics, Transgender, Transwomen

Title says it all: some Peruvians drink frog-based smoothies.

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Drinks, Food, Frog smoothies, Juice, Latin america, Peru

Ayleen Cereceda is a 12-year-old girl Chilean girl who, as of three-and-a-half months ago, started uncontrollably sneezing up to twelve thousand times a day.

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Ayleen cereceda, Chile, Chilean girl sneezed 12 thousand times a day, Latin america, Odd news

Sad, sad, news: Eric is a 4-year-old Peruvian boy who's been kicked out of catholic school because he's HIV-positive. Eric's parents, both HIV-positive themselves, live in complete poverty and have no means to mend the situation.

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Aids, Education, Health, Hiv, Kids, Latin america, Peru, Sad, School, Video

With New Year's Eve coming up this weekend, we're looking to the motherland for some party pointers.

• By: Cindy Casares

Tags: Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Latin america, Mexico, New years, New years celebrations, Photos

As if the amazing concept of Kumbia Queers — five queer Latina punks that play cumbias — isn't overwhelmingly cool in itself, the band just went ahead and dropped a second ass-kicking full-length on our dumbfounded asses. We're barely wrapping our heads on their first one! Our dance parties & house cleaning "quehacer" will never be the same.

• By: Nacomprende

Tags: Ali gua gua, Cumbias, Gay, Kumbia queers, Latin america, Lesbian, Lgbt, Music, Reviews, Video