Telling Central America: the 'making of' of a literary chronicle

The literary festival Centroamérica Cuenta celebrates its tenth anniversary since Wednesday in the Dominican Republic as a space for the projection of Ibero-American letters and reflection on some of the challenges of contemporary societies: journalism, freedom of expression, populism, democracy or climate change. The event, promoted by the Nicaraguan writer and Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramírez and today turned into an itinerant by the persecution of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, hosts this Sunday a conversation between the Spanish writer Lara Moreno, the Dominican Frank Báez and the Mexican Jorge Comensal with the Mexican author and editor Emiliano Monge.

In collaboration with the festival, EL PAÍS broadcasts this dialogue in which the speakers eviscerate the making of Cuenta Centroamérica, a project of literary chronicles in which different guest authors write about emblematic places or characters of the city hosting the festival, in this case Santo Domingo. What did they see, what impressed them? In this dialogue they will talk about their particular making of Account Central America in the Dominican Republic.

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