I am from a country with a complex cultural history, Martinique, travelled across the Caribbean and South America, lived in Colombia. And have always been amazed by the disconnection you could witness between people and part of their own culture, between neighbouring islands, 40km apart, between the international fame of some cultures and the quiet death by suffocation of others.
This is a complex region to grasp. Where political unrest, identity issues, discrimination, are part of daily life. A region of natural extremes - with the driest, virtually sterile, desert on Earth in Chile, stroke continuously by the most productive marine ecosystem in the world - and great paradoxes - where a country like Haiti, which helped financially Simon Bolivar in his campaign for the independence of South America became one of the poorest in less than two centuries -
And here is where Latineos comes. In the gaps and holes left or created, rebuilding the broken, internal and international, cultural bridges. There to share the dynamism and creativity generated by the paradoxes and beauties of a world.
With the participation of well-established academics, students, artists, journalists and really everyone wishing to share their expertise and particular knowledge of Latin America and the Caribbean, we will regularly publish articles (on all arts and culture related subjects possible), artistic reviews and discoveries (classics and emergent trends/artists), stories (relating to a particular event or the day-to-day life of an individual or community), livechats, list of events and much more.
So, whatever your views on Latin America & the Caribbean, be challenged, get informed and share your experience.
Frederic Marc
Founder
Why Latineos...
