President Trump's pressure campaign against Venezuela is the latest in a long saga of U.S. intervention in the region that is rooted in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine — and is a mix of success and failure.

Historian Alexander Avina joins WIRED to answers the internet's burning questions about the modern history of Latin America. Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey Director of Photography: Ben Dewey Editor: Richard Trammell Expert: Alexander Avina Line Producer ...

Longtime Bowdoin history professor Allen Wells recasts the recent history of Latin America as a battle of democracy vs. dictatorship, rather than left vs. right. “When we think of Latin America, the prevailing image is of a region filled with either ...

John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons is a one-man stage show written and performed by Leguizamo himself! It’s a hilarious and educational exploration of 3,000 years of Latin American history starting from the Mayans and Aztecs to the Spanish ...

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 competence cross-cultural awareness and communication ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A typical way of telling the history of the United States ...

Many University of Florida students walk through the halls of Smathers Library without realizing they are just steps away from one of the most important collections in the United States focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. Founded in 1925, the Latin ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A special celebration is coming to Fresno's Tower District on Friday night during Hispanic and Latin American History Month. Action News was in the Tower Theater on Thursday during the dress rehearsal of the show Soy Asombroso ...

In Latin America, socialism’s merits have “failed to deliver, and in doing so, has harmed the quality of democracy,” Abdala said. U.S. spending has increased significantly over the past century, and as of late-December, the national debt sits at $38.5 trillion.

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 restore names that “honor American greatness,” the ...