The 2025 Philadelphia Tango Festival will take place over Memorial Day Weekend, from Friday, May 23 through Monday, May 26. Join the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School (PATS), sponsor of this annual event, and tango enthusiasts from around the region and around the world for a weekend of music, dance, and celebration.
The Pan American Association of Philadelphia joins the world in mourning the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis, the first Pope from Latin America.
Daniel Noboa, the 37 year old current president of Ecuador, failed to get a plurality of the votes in last Sunday’s elections. Therefore, he will have to, once again, face Luisa Gonzalez, a left of center candidate closely allied with former President Rafael Correa, in a runoff election on April 13th.
On March 19, 2025, at 4:00 PM, Temple University Beasley School of Law will host the Annual Judge Nelson A. Díaz Professorship Series, focusing on Latino Civil Rights: Contributions and Challenges.
Alejandro Gallard Prio passes away in Buga, Colombia
DECISION POINT FOR VENEZUELA SANCTIONS
By P. Michael McKinley and Patrick Duddy – November 17, 2023.
Venezuela is at a crossroads. The carefully choreographed announcement on October 17 of an agreement between the Maduro government and the opposition Unitary Platform on a roadmap for democratic presidential elections in 2024, accompanied the next day by an easing of US sanctions, unraveled in less than two weeks.
The United States last Wednesday offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators of the assassination of Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
Cuba will not do the Wagner waltz:
The Cuban Ambassador to Russia stated two weeks ago that Cuba would not oppose the participation of its citizens in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
So says it’s current President, Gustavo Petro, the first left-of-center politician ever elected to the office.
Keeping the promise that he made, that he would return to Brazil in March 2023, former President Jairo Bolsonaro arrived in Brasilia on March 30th, after a three-month, self-imposed exile.
