Land grabs spearheaded by wealthy interests are accelerating deforestation, and Brazil is working to legitimize them. Introduction...
Latin America
Explore the history of Latin America from its Indigenous civilizations through European conquest and the formation of modern nations. These studies examine struggles over power alongside the cultural traditions that have shaped the region.
The election of Gabriel Boric has consequences far beyond the country’s borders. There are many reasons the...
In the 1700s, Day of the Dead generated the largest annual market in Mexico City. Introduction As...
Here’s what you need to know about the past, present, and future of this harmful policy. After...
Peruvian Carlos Baca Flor excelled in the study of the nude model and Colombian artist Francisco A....
These images were made in the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain by Indigenous artist-scribes in 1531 to...
Refugees keep coming because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America. By...
Why were such lavish portraits of nuns created on the occasion of their profession, and who were...
The theme of protection of Christians and the Christian faith was common in the Spanish viceroyalties of...
In 1646, a Chilean man named Alonso de Ovalle published an illustrated text titled Historical account of the...
The tombs were found almost completely undisturbed. A Golden Discovery In 1987, Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva received...
Heads are a frequent motif appearing in all phases of Paracas art, and severed human heads have...
Paracans had the means to support a rich culture and forge reciprocal trade relationships with other Early...
Violence continues to rage in Mexico more than a decade after former President Felipe Calderon launched a...
We see an artist attempting to represent the diverse ethnic makeup of the Spanish viceroyalty of New...
They followed a similar pattern of studying abroad for a few years and returning home to teach...
Works of Mesoamerican art often include references to calendars and time. Introduction We think of calendars as...
The travel literature, which did not have Brazil as final destination, could have disproportionate and unsuspected repercussions....
The Portuguese colonization of Brazil was initially quite different from the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Introduction...
Marx was a seminal figure in twentieth-century landscape design and plant conservation. By Tom Christopher Born in...
Russians refer to the event as the “Caribbean Crisis.” Cubans refer to it as the “October Crisis.”...
The tlacuilo (codex painter) tradition endured the transition to colonial culture. Introduction Aztec codices (singular codex) are...
A new video series which is intended to “combat leftist ideas” and offer a false narrative of...
We know there are successful alternatives to prohibition. By (Ret.) Detective Russell Jones The American War on...
The Portuguese colonization of Brazil was like that of Spanish Latin America. The Portuguese Colonization of Brazil...
Recalling a time when Pinochet along with President Nixon and Henry Kissinger forced upon Chile economic policies...
In Latin America several countries are under turmoil, as people cannot even meet their most basics needs....
The U.S. government is struggling to respond to another large wave of migrants fleeing poverty, violence, and...
What happens in El Norte doesn’t stay in El Norte. By Rebecca Gordon It’s hard to believe...
When artists painted more than one revolution. The Mexican Revolution of 1910, which ended the 35-year presidency...