{"id":93646,"date":"2020-09-23T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=93646"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:21:52","slug":"12th-latin-american-festival-goes-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=93646","title":{"rendered":"12th Latin American Festival Goes Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By V. Sankara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) &#8212; The 12th Latin American\nFestival, which will showcase the multi-ethnic and cultural diversity of Latin\nAmerica and the Caribbean, is being held online for the very first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peruvian Ambassador to Malaysia, Guido F. Loayza, said the\ntwo-day cultural event, which will start at 5 pm Tuesday, will play videos\nshowcasing the continent&#8217;s food, music, arts and crafts, heritage, and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s Latin American Festival will be very different,\nbeing held online due to the restrictions imposed in view of COVID-19,\u201d he told\nBernama in an exclusive interview here, Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said embassies from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba,\nMexico, Peru and Uruguay will take part in the event, jointly organised by the\nGroup of Latin America and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC) and the Ministry of\nTourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe festival is a good opportunity to renovate the\nMalaysia-Latin America countries&#8217; friendship besides bringing the continent\u2019s\nrich culture closer to Malaysian people,\u201d said the ambassador, who is\nrepresenting GRULAC embassies in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details on the festival, visit\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lafmalaysia\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By V. Sankara KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) &#8212; The 12th Latin American Festival, which will showcase the multi-ethnic and cultural diversity of Latin America and the Caribbean, is being held online for the very first time. Peruvian Ambassador to Malaysia, Guido F. Loayza, said the two-day cultural event, which will start at 5 pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,288,287,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}