La Antena is a 2007 Argentine film written and directed by Esteban Sapir. La Atena is a silent, black and white throwback to the days of German expressionism. It's many symbols allude to fascism, religion, and control of government. The story takes place in a city without a voice. The city inhabitants voices have been stolen by the bourgeois owner of the TV station, Sr. TV. Throughout the city only one person has the power to speak, the mysterious "La Voz". Her face is hidden under a hood, and she is used by Sr. TV to memorize the inhabitants of the ...

Junot Díaz is a Dominican born writer whose first novel "The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for best novel of 2007. Mr. Diaz was born in Villa Juana in Santo Domingo on December 31, 1968, and emigrated to the United States at age 6 where his family settled in New Jersey. He is a graduate of Rutgers University (BA English), and completed his post graduate work at Cornell University (MFA). Before writing his first novel, he wrote many short stories. His stories have been published in The New ...

"The 3rd World" is Immortal Techniques third album and it was released on June 24th, 2008. According to Technique, the 3rd World refers not only his birthplace of Lima, Peru, but the "underground of the streets." It is a highly political album which discusses issues such as poverty, gentrification, the sellout state of commercial rap, and takes strong shots at the government, corporations, and rappers. Featuring 14 tracks (and an addition two hidden), and two short interludes the album contains a strong lineup that makes it hard to choose a single highlight ...

Since this is a site that explores Latin-American culture I feel I should discuss what a Hispanic is, and how that word is used on this site. In 1968 on September 17 the US Congress passed public law 90-498 which created the first "National Hispanic Heritage Week." The word Hispanic is a North American term disignated to describe people who are descendants from the Spanish speaking countries of the American continent. The term is not used to describe a person based on color, race, or religion; it is used as a form of cultural identification, ...