Cubans are using AI image generators to imagine US intervention in their country. The results look straight out of the 1890s.
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High school students in the US often learn about Latin America through the lens of the US, as a main character that exerts power.
US lawmakers who opposed Guatemala’s democratically elected leaders alleged communist subterfuge. They didn’t mention the United Fruit Company’s complaints before the 1954 coup.
Many US states and cities have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day. But wrestling over the explorer’s legacy has a longer – and even more fraught – history in Latin America.
Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin built on the work of Acosta, a pioneering Spanish Jesuit missionary, scientist and naturalist.
As Latin American communities continue to grow, universities must teach students about Latin America and Latinx communities in interdisciplinary ways.
In 1967 a Mexican reporter told the CIA he had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City just before the JFK assassination. New research and recently declassified intelligence pokes a hole in his story.
When the Rio Treaty was signed in 1947, an opportunity was missed to promote democracy in Latin America.
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Assistant Professor, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Faculty of Science, McMaster University
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Professor of History, American University
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Professor of Narrative Analysis, School of Higher Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor of Anthropology; Faculty Co-Chair, Interdisciplinary Minor in Latin American and Latinx Studies, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Latin American History, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Profesora Titular de Universidad. Área de Filosofía Moral, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Latin America, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Assistant Professor of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Humanities, Office of the Vice-Provost (Teaching & Learning), McMaster University, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University
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