Colombia's colonial port of Cartagena intoxicates the director of Britain's Hay Festival literary franchise, whose fifth annual gathering in the Caribbean city's walled ramparts takes place next week. "The parties in Cartagena are lavish and joyful. There's something thrilling about dancing with new ideas ...

Efforts to film Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's latest novel are meeting resistance in Mexico, where an anti-prostitution group is seeking to block production, charging the movie will promote child prostitution. "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" tells the story of a bachelor who ...

Mexican-born film star Salma Hayek could take a lead role in an upcoming adaptation of the book "News of a Kidnapping" by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the movie's producer says. Shooting is scheduled to start this October in Bogota and in Mexico on the adaptaion of the 1996 book, a factual account of the kidnapping of 10 journalists ...