Latin America

The country’s Latino GDP surpassed $3 trillion for the first time in 2021, a new report by UCLA researchers and colleagues shows.

That Latin American Institute summer program prepares K–12 instructors to bring new knowledge into their classrooms.

Researchers found that Afro-Latinos face worse outcomes in income, homeownership and other areas than non-Black Latinos.

High-profile hearings will accompany March 2–11 events connecting U.S. social justice movements with struggles across the Americas.

A UCLA report examines demographic and socioeconomic changes among Latino groups from between 2000 and 2020.

The continent’s diverse species all evolved very rapidly from a single ancestral population, a UCLA-led study shows.

Forni comes to the Fowler after an accomplished tenure at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.

In its third year, the Modern Endangered Archives Program has also launched an open access website.

“Descifrando Terrenos” features 13 Southern California artists and runs through Oct. 7

UCLA’s Maite Zubiaurre led the creation of the art installation “Mujer Migrante Memorial” and accompanying virtual map honoring those who died.

The gift marks the largest contribution to date to the Chicano Studies Research Center.

Both will contribute to the library’s collection relating to Latin American social and cultural history.

Dr. Elizabeth Barnert’s research into El Salvador’s “disappeared” children points to a role for genetics in reunification.

Professors Maite Zubiaurre and Kristy Guevara-Flanagan hope their film about searching for those lost in the desert will change immigration policy.

The name “UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano and Central American Studies” was approved for the 2019-20 academic year.

Berns led the Fowler, one of the world’s top museums focusing on the arts and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the indigenous Americas, for nearly 20 years.

A new film by two UCLA faculty members focuses on volunteers who search the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants who have died.

A new Latin American Institute workshop aims to help teachers inspire their students to think about how history gets written.

Many forested areas used by insurgents for camouflage and cover were later decimated by illegal industries.

UCLA doctoral student Leydy Diossa-Jimenez has overcome the odds of geography and health to become a scholar, while helping others learn to advance their educations.

Susannah Rodríguez Drissi’s “A Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos” offers insights into the nature of language and identity, as well as the relationship between sound and meaning.

NBC News shadowed five UCLA medical students as they trained at an urban hospital near the Amazon jungle.

“Guatemalan Masks: Selections from the Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection” is an exhibition of 80 remarkable carved wooden faces depicting animals, folk personae, and historic figures.

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs’ Latin American Cities Initiative brings urban planning students, educators and practitioners into a multinational conversation.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco say more must be done to help these children integrate into U.S. and European societies.