Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian ...

As a historian of Latin America, I’ve paid attention to the ways calendars signal a nation’s “official” values and how countries wrestle with these holidays’ meanings.. Día de la Raza ...

The film explores the geography and history of Central America, a region that connects North and South America. It discusses the impact of Spanish colonization, highlighting the agricultural ...

Measured differently, only 14% of Latin America’s total goods trade occurs within the region, the lowest figure anywhere in the world (see chart 1). Low trade in general is a problem.

Offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American colonies during 300 years of Spanish rule, as well as the ...

Why the first Latin American pope couldn’t win back Latin America. During Francis’s papacy, evangelical Protestantism and secularism continued to remake Latin America’s religious geography ...