The mythical, dangerous, acrobatic and heroic world of Mexico’s masked men. Featuring 16 of Mexico’s finest Luchadores including El Hijo Del Santo & Blue Demon Jr

The first London show in five years from the great Salsa star aka El Sonero Mayor (‘The Great Improviser’), Oscar D’Leon

Carlinhos Brown is set to appear on the Barbican on June 24th supported by funkeiro Mr Catra

The Barbican has long been the favoured venue of many a Brazilian singer. Seu Jorge, Gilberto Gill and Marisa Monte have all graced its stage and now it is preparing to celebrate 50 years of Bossa nova.

With the full force of DJ Dolores’ Brazilian beats, La Linea kicked off with an early pre-launch party for the coming season of Latin gigs

Regularly cited as the critic’s choice, Joell makes his debut appearance in Europe on Friday 28th March 2008 at La Raza, Carling Islington Academy in London

A vibrant Latin American musical night in celebration of “Dia de Los Muertos” (Day of the Dead)

Brazilian psych-rock superstars Os Mutantes to play first-ever live shows in Scotland and Liverpool (plus rare London date and brand-new material from Gruff Rhys, King Creosote, Bonde Do Role, Four Tet, Diplo, and Ben Westbeech

It’s time to dust off your flip-flops and dig out you shades as Fly sifts through some of the Brazilian events set to land in London over the coming months.

Nico El Bambino and Cardenas present Dembow hosted at the exclusive new Club 205 on the Holloway Road

The fifth Discovering Latin America Film Festival brings together an eclectic mix of internationally acclaimed feature films, documentaries and short films, in London’s leading Latin American film festival

Join Fly’s DJ Jose Luis for a night of reggaeton, hip hop and old school salsa down at Cargo, London on 19 October

Nottinghill Carnival may have come and gone but that doesn’t mean your carnival spirit has to die with it as London is set to play host to a plethora of Brazillian events this autumn

Free event! Don’t miss a great opportunity to see the real Latin America at the Latin Carnaval

After 18 hot months of booty-shaking dancehall and reggaeton madness at Rhythm Factory, it’s time for the monthly Heatwave party to move on. The night will return at a brand new venue in September/October 2006. For the last event at Rhythm Factory it’s all about the residents doing what they do best, and firing up a party not to be missed…

Legend of Brazilian music for over 30 years, Sergio Mendes, makes a long awaited return to London. There’s also a chance to catch Gilles Peterson for free beforehand

If you’ve been wondering why we haven’t heard from Sidewinder (aka Alan Bryden) for some time, one of the reasons is that he’s just returned from six months living in São Paulo! Hectic tracked the Glasgow resident down to the basement home of Radio Saturn where it was a good time to ask…

Thank you for the hundreds of entries but the competition is now closed and winers hve been notified.

The Latino heat is on! And to get the part started, Fly is offering two free pairs of tickets…

This is La Linea’s 6th year of presenting new trends and moves in music of Latin origin. La Linea takes place in a variety of central London venues throughout April and the ‘06 season promises to keep up the dizzying standards that previous audiences have come to expect.

An exciting, violently rhythmical evening of music inspired by the essence and heritage of African rhythms and melodies and their influence in Venezuela, Cuba and Puerto Rico — and what better location than in the Embassy of Venezuela

Catch gritty Brazilian hip hop film Favela Rising at the ICA, London

Two rooms of of culo-shaking Caribbean madness from Jamaica to Puerto Rico and Trinidad to Panama

The Barbican’s major festival of art, music, film, theatre and dance celebrating the most significant cultural movement to have emerged from South America in the last five decades. It’s a three-month-long celebration of all things Brazillian. And then there’s the World Cup…

Fly is proud to sponsor the Brazilian View Film Fest being held in London, Birmingham and, for the first time, Brussels. The BVFF is a non-competitive festival. Its main objective is to promote Brazilian culture and the new paths that are being established in cinema through short and medium length films

Latin Hip Hop Crews Hit London on International Human Rights Day at the Same Time as 50,000 Party in Cali, Colombia

The 4th Discovering Latin America Film Festival is about to hit London cinemas with a programme packed with the latest films, documentaries and cultural events from some of the world’s most exciting filmmakers

The world-renowned accordion master from Argentina has anounced a series of dates including the Sage and a host of more intimate venues around the UK. We have given away a pair of tickets to Mark near Cardiff

An eclectic list of 10 underground venues and pubs for the global music culture set chosen by local Fly reporter Paulina Tala Masafierro for when you are down Chile way

London’s best kept secret is the raucous Latin party that is Carnaval del Pueblo in Burgess Park. Great bands, windbag radio presenters blathering on on stage, fantastic street food, fabulous costumes and the hottest dancing outside Latin America. This year megastar Joe Arroyo will be headlining!

France’s Kafig dance company has made quite a splash internationally with its blend of hip hop, circus arts, modern dance — in short, a virtual melting pot of dance forms.

Our man in Buenos Aires was there to see UK DJs breathing life back into the Argentine electronica scene

La Linea, London's Festival of Latin Music, returns for its fifth series this April with stand out concerts by Los Van Van, Seu Jorge, Orishas and Ska Cubano

The first South American Music Conference landed in Buenos Aires, with a host of international DJs joining local talent to the delight of over 22,000 fans

Discovering Latin America III Film Festival (25 November - 5 December) brings to London a selection of internationally acclaimed feature films and documentaries, including 21 UK premieres like The First Night, from Colombia The Truce from Mexico and A Social Genocide from Argentina among others.

They are frighteningly clever, they are multimedia, they are Mexican and they are over here (as long as you are in London). Meet Manas -- Avant Gardists with Latin Spirit

Hay fotos del Carnaval, y donde estas? It's been over for less than 20 minutes but Fly is first with the pics of London's Latin Carnaval from Burgess Park. Were you there?

We need guides to as many of the funky places in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela as possible. Ideally, you will live there and want to share with the world what's going on...