Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war by ...

Pt. 1: Foregrounds and backgrounds: This land, this people -- The Indian background -- The Iberian background -- The African background -- Pt. 2: The Iberians in the new world: Discovery and conquest ...

Trump’s moves have dredged up “bitter memories” from the “long record of U.S. military interventions” in Latin America, said ...

US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial ...

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 ...

In 2001, UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank was asked by the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (US/LEAP), a Chicago nonprofit, to develop a union label for the U.S. banana market.

Latin America faces a productivity crisis as industry declines and exports revert to raw materials, according to new ECLAC ...

And considering America’s history in the region, such an outcome almost seems pre-ordained. Last week, Adm. Alvin Holsey, who ...

MIAMI (AP) — When Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno visits Colombia this week as part of a three-nation tour of Latin America, it will be something of a homecoming. The Ohio senator, who defeated an ...

Trump may succeed in transforming the continent to a place where governments either favor or fear Trump, but it won't deliver ...