Years after his unjustified assassination, a daughter seeks understanding and context for her father’s message. Graham Douglas Ernesto “Che” Guevara was born in Argentina and traveled throughout Latin America in his early life as a medical student; everywhere he went he was sickened by the poverty and injustice […]
Author: The Prisma
Miles Cleret: Afro-Latin crossovers in music
A DJ since he was a teenager, his label aims to bring lost tracks from the 60’s and 70’s to modern audiences. Graham Douglas Cleret dislikes the term ‘World Music’ as a western attempt to classify ‘other’ music, instead focusing on the multicultural crossovers between musical styles from many […]
When the Latinos reached the UK
The 1970 ’s saw the arrival of the Latin American community in Great Britain. More than 40 years later, 186,500 Latinos have forged a path to the UK. This is the official estimate; the actual number could well be much higher.– – After gaining independence from Spanish and Portuguese colonial […]
Fifty years watching the girl from Ipanema
The “Girl from Ipanema” allowed one of the smoothest and most influential styles of Latin-American music to go global: the bossa nova. It is the 50 year anniversary of the creation of the song.– – Miriam Valero – It was the summer of 1962 in Río de Janeiro. At the […]
Mansour: Capitalism lacks heart and long-term vision
Mansour Mohammadian is the founder of Economics of the Third Way, a model which proposes a replacement to the current economic system after the financial collapse. The theory is based on forgotten principles for regulating the economy, such as solidarity and trust. Miriam Valero In the 1980s Mansour […]















