The Latin American Studies Collection

A voyage deep into the Amazon to explore the implications of Brazil's policy on uncontacted indigenous tribes.

Returning to Todos Santos after 30 years, a look at the profound economic and social changes that have transformed this Guatemalan Mayan village.

Profiles Lency, a man who lives in Cuba's central mountains who has a creative solution to all of life's daily problems there.

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1997 massacre of 45 indigenous people by paramilitary troops in Chiapas, Mexico.

Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile.

A concise and fast-paced history of the volatile forces at work in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1980s.

The grave consequences of building a road through the heart of Amazonia.

An uplifting story about Jupiter, Florida's humane response to an influx of day laborers from Jacaltenango, Guatemala.

Some people travel to Bolivia to go down the dangerous silver mines, to see the medieval work conditions. Are they crawling through the contaminated tunnels to learn about a foreign culture, or to escape boredom?

Explores Sao Paolo in introduction to series examining the effects of globalization on people and cities.