Escribir para Otros / Writing for Others

Julieta Venegas exudes an air of freshness and spontaneity throughout our interview. After the customary greetings, she gives her c...

Esta vez es una foto lo que me publicaron en Panorama de octubre, en la sección Zoom.

Even though the town of Carmelo makes no claims to fame other than the facts that it is home to the only swing bridge in Uruguay and a...

Thanks to the adventures of a young Argentine aristocrat, Uruguay’s presidents have an enviable vacation residence in the department...

During the first half of the twentieth century, the people of Montevideo were proud of the Goes neighborhood, an economic and cultura...

The economy of Pittsburgh rebounded thanks to services, technology, culture, tourism, and sustainability, making it one of the fifty ...

The most popular coastal summer vacation sites in Uruguay are in the departments of Maldonado and Rocha, on the Atlantic Ocean. Althoug...

In this global world, it is often difficult when traveling to tell the difference between traditional handcrafts and those invented t...

RECOVERING AND SHARING MULTIPLE FACETS OF AN AUTHOR The Augusto Roa Bastos Foundation seeks to recover and publicize the lesse...

The indigenous Aché people of northeastern Paraguay were originally hunters and gatherers. In the 1970s, deforestation forced them into ...

It’s hard to sum up a place as diverse as Salta. Naturally bestowed with mountainous landscapes, gorges, and fertile valleys, Salta, in ...

In 1945, Gabriela Mistral became the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The poet and essayist became a...

One spring Saturday, I went on an excursion to Isla de Flores with a group of photographers I met on Flickr, a photography website. Just ...

The Art Deco aesthetic was enthusiastically adopted all over Montevideo. Classic examples can be found in buildings in the city center...

Joaquín Torres-García (1874-1949) returned to his native Uruguay after a journey that lasted 43 years, during which he frequented the modern...

There exists an Argentina that has nothing to do with milonga and tango, pampas and gauchos or the folk culture of Río de la Plata and the E...

The “Parade of Calls” is the most original manifestation of Afro-Uruguayan culture. During two nights of  carnival, dance groups parade thro...

Published in Panorma, December 2010. Even though wine probably came to Uruguay along with the Spaniards, this southern country’s wine indus...

Publicado en Panorma de diciembre 2010: La producción de vino en Uruguay se remonta, documentalmente, a principios del siglo XVIII, aunque ...

We leave from Montevideo on a Friday at sunrise, by car. A twelve hour drive awaits us. The previous day a...