Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian cultures. Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Latin America's oldest colonial city is aiming for a rebound, pouring tens of millions of dollars into repairing streets, cleaning up trash, installing ...

DEPENDING on where you’re coming from, it can be difficult to wrap your head around colonial painting and sculpture from Latin America. The art made between the arrival of Christopher Columbus ...

Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to ...

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The largest exhibit ever assembled of Latin America colonial art is on display in Mexico City. The show offers fresh perspectives on the wide-ranging cultural influences –Spanish, Dutch, Middle ...

As a historian of Latin America, I’ve paid attention to the ways calendars signal a nation’s “official” values and how countries wrestle with these holidays’ meanings.. Día de la Raza ...

In the book, Galeano argued that colonial masters drained Latin America of natural resources for three centuries, Britain took advantage of the region’s underpriced labor and exports via unequal ...

By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.New YorktIn apparent response to criticism of his May 13 speech in Brazil in which the pope asserted Christianity was not an “imposition of a foreign culture” on indigenous ...

Relicarios began to fall out of favor in Latin America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Ms. Egan noted, in part because of anticlerical sentiments and a growing independence movement ...