CWU Center for Latino & Latin American Studies

05/27/2014

Mexican driver, Sergio Perez, suffered crash during the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend.

Force India's Mexican driver Sergio Perez leaves his car after he crashed during the Monaco F1 GP on Sunday. Photo: Anne-Christine Poujoulat

05/27/2014

Marcos Galperine, founder of Mercado Libre talks to CNBC about founding ebays exclusive Latin American partner business.

MercadoLibre is the eBay of Latin America. The founder talks about how he built the largest regional retailer despite market challenges.

05/23/2014

Romero Santos, Latin American musician will be joining the cast of "Fast and The Furious 7."
How do you think he will do as an actor?

Latin-American singer Romeo Santos is revving up for a role in Universal's Fast & Furious 7. The chart-topping, Grammy-nominated musician and former lead s

05/20/2014

Brazil protests just weeks away from The World Cup opening.
Read more here:

With barely a month until the World Cup opens in Brazil, violent protests and strikes are breaking out across the country.

05/20/2014

Hacking interferes with Colombian presidential campaign. Read more on this recent news story below:

A hacker scandal involving a video is sending shockwaves through Colombia's presidential campaign.

04/30/2014

A video remembering the life of Mr. García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel laureate Colombian author whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City.

04/30/2014

Don't forget CWU summer registration begins on Cinco de Mayo! There are hundreds of online and in session classes available.

04/22/2014

At 4 p.m. today Dr. Acevedo-Field from Whitworth University will speak to Central students about "A Portuguese Converso Family before the inquisition in 1640s Mexico." The presentation is held in Black Hall room 152. Refreshments will be served. Please join us.

04/17/2014

They call him the "master of style" known as magic realism. Today, Latin America remembers their best writer yet, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Read more about his passing below.
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/10/156561881/writer-gabriel-garcia-marquez-who-gave-voice-to-latin-america-dies

The master of magic realism was the region's best-known writer. His novels were filled with miraculous events and characters; love and madness; wars, dreams and death. He died Thursday at 87.

04/10/2014

American media giants are seeking the best way to reach their Latino audience after several failed attempts at Latino news stations and websites. Read more below.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/reaching-latinos-media-vies-winning-formula-23171722

Reaching the nation's 55 million Latinos has become gospel for mainstream media giants, but capturing this fast-growing, mostly U.S.-born audience is proving tricky to networks and websites. For every success story there is a flop. Take CNN's latest attempt at a Spanish-language broadcast...

04/09/2014

Colombian actress Carolina Guerra makes her American debut in Starz "Da Vinci's Demons."

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/carolina-guerra-stars-season-da-vinci-demons-article-1.1714416

Carolina Guerra is bringing her magic to the small screen. The Colombian beauty has joined the cast of the Starz series "Da Vinci's Demons," playing a mystical Inca high priestess in the action-packed fictional account of Leonardo Da Vinci's younger days.

04/08/2014

La Ciénega, Ecuador, a place with no children.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/where-the-streets-have-no-children/?_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=world&_r=0

A chance mention of a small Ecuadorean town with no children and a handful of old residents set Santiago Arcos on a mission to document its dwindling life.