UCLA Latin American Institute

Check out this upcoming webinar "Amazonia: New Perspectives on a Region in Crisis," sponsored by, among others, our colleagues at UC Barbara and UC Davis. One of the speakers is our very own Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Join us for day 2, Semblanza 2020 #semblanza #uclalai

Join us on Semblanza 2020. Celebrating Latin American art and culture!!! #semblanza2020 #LatinAmerica #uclalai

Join us on our two upcoming events. Read in LA is a series of informal and online encounters between Luso-Afro-Brazilian writers, poets, editors, and translators. The invited speakers will share with the larger audience their writing and reading experiences during this quarantine. Session 3 - November 10: The event will be held in Portuguese Session 4 - November 18: The event will be held in English

The LA Times on how US policy toward Latin America would shift under a Biden presidency. We will leave it to you to decide whether a more active US presence in the region is a good or a bad thing.

Very exciting quarter coming up in the Latin American Institute and our affiliated Centers. Watch in the coming days and weeks for details on a roundtable on Black Lives Matter in Brazil, another on the implications of the US election for Latin America, and still another on the prospects of US intervention in Venezuela, along with a slightly scaled-back version of the long-running Brazilian Film Series. And much more!

Of the 22 archival digitization projects selected for funding by the UCLA library, eight are in Latin America.

A fifth of the Pantanal has burned already.

And you thought the California wildfires were bad.