Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas

Film Review: Song Without a Name

In director Melina León’s debut, a woman’s personal tragedy speaks to the wider costs of Peru’s internal conflict in the 1980s.

AQ’s Fall 2020 Playlist

AQ’s last playlist of 2020 features a group of Brazilian performers who met a difficult year head-on.

Film Review: Bacurau

This eerie futuristic tale of a northeastern town was the winner of the 2019 Cannes Jury Award.

AQ’s Spring Playlist

Our musical recommendations for a spring spent indoors, from foot-tapping Brazilian soul to a Guatemalan composer’s experiments with classical sound.

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When Chile’s Past Blurs with its Present

This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Latin America’s armed forces. It’s as if Chilean director Patricio Guzmán knew what was going to happen in late 2019. The images of uprising, fracture and hope for a better future in his latest film, La Cordillera de los Sueños (The Cordillera of Dreams), feel like a prelude … Read more

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