In the article cited above Jesús Martín-Barbero explores some of the key issues thrown up by the development of audiovisual, and, increasingly, digital culture as it pertains to Latin America. In particular he focuses on the question of space, exploring the relationship between cultural products and their ‘embeddedness’ in a given space such as the nation; and on that of time, examining how changes in the conceptualisation of time in new media may accommodate a distinctively Latin American perspective on history and narrative. What this chapter proposes to do is to test some of Martín-Barbero's arguments by applying them to two seminal works of Latin American hypertext fiction. As a by-product of this investigation, it intends to elucidate the ways in which such works may be seen to relate to and participate in the development of the canon of Latin American literature, placing particular emphasis on areas where hypertextual elements combine with and enhance Latin American cultural features. By way of a conclusion, this chapter will consider whether hypertext endangers Latin American culture by force-feeding ‘globalised’ cultural products to audiences in the region, leaving them adrift in global time and space, or whether it can perhaps offer a local, emancipatory, resistant solution to the more nefarious effects of globalisation on Latin American culture.