Graciela Mochkofsky

Spain’s El País ventures into the world’s fifth-largest Spanish-speaking country: the United States.

How has it come to this? The first and most simple answer is that South America is in such a mess that it can no longer take care of its most precious tournament. It’s not like the Copa has had a smooth history. Conceived as part of the centennial celebrations of Argentina’s independence from Spain, in 1816, its first edition took place in Buenos Aires during two weeks in July of 1916, among only four teams—Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile. Six more national teams were added in the followin…

Stereotype 1: all Latinos are recent arrivals. They are not. Arana—who uses “Latino,” a label that most commonly signifies Latin American heritage, and “Hispanic,” which denotes Spanish-speaking ancestry, interchangeably, to the point of referring to a Spaniard as having “Latino roots”—traces the “dawn of the Latino presence” in the United States to the conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spaniard to spend extensive amounts of time in what is now Florida, starting in 1528. She wri…

Neruda was arguably the most important Spanish-language poet of the twentieth century, and a symbol of the Chile that succumbed to Pinochet. He died in September, 1973, twelve days after the coup overthrew the government of Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist President and a friend of Neruda’s. For generations, Neruda’s prestige seemed beyond reproach. In recent years, however, his life and death have been subjected to new scrutiny—and the interpretation and legitimacy of his…

Arévalo is a sixty-five-year-old center-left sociologist and former diplomat who, before the elections, was best known in Guatemala as the son of Juan José Arévalo, the country’s first democratically elected President. Bernardo Arévalo’s Semilla (Seed) party ran on an anti-corruption campaign, and has been fighting against the efforts of a special-interest network that includes politicians, businessmen, and people involved in organized crime widely known as el pacto de corruptos, the pact of the…

Milei is a fifty-three-year-old economist who was practically unknown to the Argentinean public before 2015, when his appearance as a panelist on a popular late-night TV show immediately doubled its ratings and he became a regular guest. A self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist and libertarian, he called for shrinking the government, eliminating or cutting many taxes, and shuttering the Central Bank. On the show, he was often irate, berating his fellow-panelists and cursing. In the years since, Mile…

A singer and songwriter, the winner of eleven Grammys and eleven Latin Grammys, Blades transformed salsa, the Afro-Caribbean dance music developed in New York City in the nineteen-sixties, by making it a vehicle for stories with a social-justice and anticolonial slant. Blades “is just as significant as Víctor Jara, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley in terms of writing about social-justice issues and where society needs to be better,” Félix Contreras, the co-creator and host of “Alt.Latino,” NPR’s show on La…

The writer has shocked many by endorsing Latin America and Spain’s rising authoritarian movements.

Edel Rodriguez’s new exhibition, “Apocalypso,” reflects on democracy under threat in the nation that welcomed him in his childhood.

The film tells the improbable—and history-making—story of how a military dictatorship was brought to justice.