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March 23, 2020
Verónica Enid Dávila Ellis

YHLQMDLG is a reggaetón album that will only sound groundbreaking outside of the genre's vanguard.

December 27, 2019
Verónica Dávila and Marisol LeBrón

How does a song about the ubiquity of sexual and gendered violence perpetrated by the state against women become an earworm?

January 25, 2019
Miguel Salazar con Simón Mejía

Este año, el grupo colombiano se embarca en una iniciativa para preservar la selva colombiana. 

January 25, 2019
Miguel Salazar with Simón Mejía

An interview with Simón Mejía of Bomba Estéreo on the Colombian band’s effort to preserve Colombia’s rainforests.

March 15, 2017
Julia T. Burnell and Nano Stern

A conversation with Chilean singer-songwriter Nano Stern.

March 15, 2017
Julia T. Burnell

An interview with Chilean musician Nano Stern, currently touring North America, who will be performing with NACLA this week.

March 25, 2015
Nicki Fleischner

Cuba's heavy metal scene during the Special Period. 

October 14, 2014
Ed Morales

A guerrera de la luz, Lila Downs talks about her current and future projects and what it means to live and make art on real and metaphorical borders.

September 10, 2014
Ed Morales

Almost 10 years after their origins as a quirky indie-hip hop cum alternative reggaetón music group, Calle 13 continues to bring its message of a dissolution of borders in favor of social class alliances to the mainstream.

March 18, 2014

In April of this year, NACLA will be collaborating with Brooklyn-based singer Ani Cordero as she tours in support of her album Recordar—an album of Latin American protest songs from the 1930s-70s, co-produced with Os Mutantes' Sérgio Dias. 

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