Many of our college freshman students will have seen and read about the Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. military operation in Venezuela that culminated in the arrest of its leader, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump's pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is the latest chapter in a long history of U.S. intervention in the Caribbean basin, rooted in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine but ...

MEXICO CITY – Historians and observers accused the Trump administration of trying to rewrite American history to justify its own foreign policy decisions toward Latin America by posting a ...