Spanish language

The Latin Alternative Music Conference fanned out across New York City last week, bringing with it sounds from across the Spanish-speaking diaspora.

A conversation with writer Julie Barlow. Barlow and Jean-Benoit Nadeau are co-authors of "The Story of Spanish," their follow-up to "The Story of French." Though linguistically similar to French, Spanish has evolved with more freedom and variation, and is now far more widely spoken than French.

Globovision is Venezuela’s last remaining TV station critical of the country’s socialist government but its role as a watchdog may end soon.

The World’s Gerry Hadden has lived in Catalonia for eight years. He speaks English, Spanish, French and German. But not Catalan. His kids speak it, his neighbors speak it, FC Barcelona speak it. Gerry doesn’t speak Catalan because he doesn’t need to.

Fuentes was known throughout the world for his novels, many of them critical of modern-day Mexico.