This tongue-in-cheek manifesto from Jaime Nuñez del Arco is to reggaeton as illuminati youtubers are to Beyonce. Written in a hasty scrawl upon stunning metallic gold paper are amusing and innocuous claims that “La ‘Calle 13’ es el ‘Area 51’ de Latino America” and “J Balvin—‘J’ for Jesus’—was baptized in a pool of wine.” This cleverly conceived and executed zine is responding to the international rise and success of underground Puerto Rican culture by saying, “hey, it’s big enough now to deserve a conspiracy theory or two.”
Del Arco is the co-founder of Terminal Ediciones, a press based in Ecuador that publishes work concerned with the “intersection of diasporic art practices, alternate visions of contemporary culture, politics and resistance discourses.”