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Inside the gilded cage — an interview with Diego Quemada-Diez
Diego Quemada-Diez spent six years researching The Golden Dream, his film about Guatemalan migrants. Now he tells JOE GILL how he went about making it
CONRAD LANDIN thrills to the voice of 79-year-old Emmylou Harris, that is enriched rather than compromised by the gravel of experience
The debut novel by Uruguayan Eugenia Ladra, and poetry by Gerardo Diego
RICHARD MURGATROYD appreciates a study that urges us to think about water differently, as a living entity with its own logic and intelligence
New releases from Zulu Guitar Blues, Fela Kuti, and Amadou & Mariam
IAN SINCLAIR revels in the reissue of great recordings by one of the most recognisable and radical voices in British music
The Spanish name for the award-winning Mexican film The Golden Dream is La Jaula De Oro, which translates as cage of gold.
“It’s what the migrants call the US because of all the gold, all the money, but when you’re in it it’s like a prison,” explains the quietly spoken 45-year-old director Diego Quemada-Diez.
The film reflects how free trade agreements with the US, combined with decades of intervention and destabilisation in central America, have caused profound inequality, poverty and violence, provoking millions to flee north.
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