Among the flurry of executive orders that Donald Trump issued on the first day of his return to office was a peculiar one: to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Claiming to ...

Europe and Latin America share a long and intimate history that is the basis for the relationship between them today. Political, economic, religious, military and cultural ideas have flowed between ...

Historiography of New Spain / Kevin Terraciano and Lisa Sousa -- Colonial Spanish South America / Lyman L. Johnson and Susan M. Socolow -- The historiography of early modern Brazil / Stuart B.

Through the study of cultures, societies, and history of the Latin American region and Latin diaspora, the interdisciplinary minor in Latin American Studies (LAS) helps students develop: global ...

The U.S. has a long and checkered history of intervening in Latin America. Here's what that may tell us about President Trump ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you think Latin American history starts with Christopher Columbus, John Leguizamo would like to have a word. As we navigate through unprecedented times, our journalists are working ...

Latin America refers to a group of countries stretching from Mexico to the tip of South America. Categorized by their Romance language origins, people in these regions generally speak Spanish, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — After I signed up for a trip into Latin America’s largest favela, I became nervous. Favelas, a word normally translated as slums, have a history of chaos, violence, despair ...

Historical, cultural, economic and political relations between the Americas have made Latin American studies an important field of inquiry for numerous disciplines. The number of Hispanic people in ...