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AQ’s Spring Playlist: A “Most Unconstitutional” New Album Roundup

This selection of recent releases features desert-inspired guitars from Ecuador, folk wisdom from Chile and tongue-in-cheek Brazilian wordplay.

A Peruvian artist’s ghostly landscapes raise questions about objectivity and authority in documenting the region’s environment.

In a darkly humorous collection of stories and “crónicas,” the Mexican writer channels life in this chaotic port city.

The general was an early advocate for Indigenous people—but reality has fallen brutally short of his ideals.

Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s “Utama” looks at the human side of environmental crisis in the Bolivian highlands.

A new book details how mining titan Moritz “Mauricio” Hochschild helped Jews escape the Nazis in Bolivia, only to be scapegoated himself.

How the internet and the government conspired to drown out public discourse at just the moment Mexican democracy truly needs it.

A new book sheds light on why evangelical Christianity has generated greater electoral power in some Latin American countries than in others.

An Argentine novel uses the supernatural to explore abuses of power in the country’s past and present.

A selection of new Latin American releases, to warm a cold Northern night or dance a Southern summer night away.

A new film by Lorenzo Vigas probes the cruel process by which victims of violence can become participants.

Renewing distressed areas and recognizing bohemian haunts, these districts in Colombia’s capital have been praised—and also criticized.

Living in a psychiatric institution, the Brazilian artist used found materials to catalog the world.

The king of futebol was not an easy man to know—but he could be generous in unexpected ways.

Politics and soccer mix everywhere, but this year it’s not just the government hoping for a championship to lighten the national mood.