Juan Bautista López, a.k.a. Yátu, is considered one of the forefathers of Venezuelan rock and has been an important influence for many Latin American artists. Available via all the major platforms, his music combines alternative rock, blues, and punk. Visit his Instagram page via the following link.

Venezuelan rock and blues singer-songwriter Yátu performs his song, "Tú la quieres aplicar" [You Want to Apply It], which delighted audiences at the International League of Music Festivals and Artists.

Yago is a jungle boy and Morena is a city girl. We’re in Misiones, the small rural town where Yago lives. But everything is about to change when New York–based Morena arrives running away from her past.

An awkward encounter ensues between Morena and Yago in the garage. However, with the combination of characters congregating inside the mansion, more dramatic confrontations are surely on the horizon.

Xochitl from Monterrey, Mexico tells us about how the recent surge in violent crime in Mexico and in her area in particular affects the way that Mexican citizens live their lives.

Welcome to this series about Spanish news vocabulary in which Carlos will teach us frequently-used words related to international relations and politics, finance, economics, the environment and more. The focus of this first episode will be international relations and politics.

In part two of this series, Carlos focuses on several terms related to international policy, more specifically conflicts and other problems in the international arena.

In the third part of this series, Carlos reviews many of the oft-heard news terms that we have learned thus far in the context of two texts similar to those we might hear on a news report.

Carlos introduces us to several business and finance-related terms. Let's learn their meanings as well as hearing them in plenty of example sentences that are similar to those we might hear or see in the written or spoken news.

Carlos teaches us additional financial vocabulary with lots of useful example sentences to heighten our understanding.

In part three of his series on financial vocabulary, Carlos discusses some terms related to the stock market, complete with a brief text to review them in context.

Carlos explores some additional economic terms in the second part of this video, concluding the lesson with a text to review the words we have learned thus far.

In this episode of News Vocabulary, Carlos focuses on commonly used environmental terms, explaining their meanings and giving us examples in context.

Carlos keeps teaching us more environmental terms, which he will reinforce by reciting a typical paragraph we might hear during a news segment on the environment.

Our friend Victor from Venezuela speaks to us from FITUR, Madrid's international tourism trade fair, about this exciting event and the "industry of happiness."