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A

Abandoned Children
Abeja Site (Colombia)
Abolition (slavery)
Abortion
Abstract Art
Abused Children. See Child Abuse
Academic Freedom
Acadians
Acanceh Site (Mexico)
Acapulco, Mexico (city)
Acción Democrática (Venezuela)
Acculturation
Achagua (indigenous group)
Aché. See Guayaquil
Achuar (indigenous group)
Acos, Peru (city)
Acre, Brazil (state)
Actors (film)
Adolescents. (See Teenagers; Youth)
Adult Education
Advertising
Aeronautics. (see also Aviation)
Aesthetics
African Influences
Africans
Afro-Americans. (see Africans; Blacks)
Aged
Agrarian Reform. (see Land Reform)
Agreste, Brazil (region)
Agribusiness
Agricultural Colonization (see also Land Settlement)
Agricultural Credit
Agricultural Development
Agricultural Development Projects. (see Development Projects)
Agricultural Geography
Agricultural Industries. (see Agroindustry)
Agricultural Labor
Agricultural Policy
Agricultural Productivity
Agricultural Subsidies
Agricultural Systems
Agricultural Technology
Agriculture
Agroindustry
Agua Tibia Site (Guatemala)
Aguadulce, Panama (city)
Aguaruna (indigenous group)
Aguascalientes, Mexico (state)
Aguazuque Sites (Colombia)
AIDS
Aircraft Industry
Airlines
Airports
Aisén, Chile. (see Aysén)
Ajuricaba (indigenous group)
Aké Site (Mexico)
Akuriyo (indigenous group)
Akwe-Shavante. (see Xavante)
Alacaluf (indigenous group)
ALADI. (see Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración)
Alagoas, Brazil (state)
Alajuela, Costa Rica (prov.)
Alakaluf. (see Alacaluf)
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Alcohol Fuel Industry
Alessandri, Jorge
Alfonsín, Raúl
Algae
Alhué, Chile (city)
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana. (see APRA (Peru))
Allende Gossens, Salvador
Alliance for Progress
Altarpieces
Altun Ha Site (Belize)
Aluminum Industry and Trade
Alva Castro, Luis
Alvarado, Pedro de
Alvarez Martínez, Gustavo
Amarakaeri. (see Mashco)
Amazon Basin
Amazonas, Brazil (state)
Amazonas, Colombia (commisary)
Amazonas, Peru (dept.)
Amazonas, Venezuela (territory)
Ambato River Basin (Ecuador)
American Economic Association
American Occupation. (see Military Occupation)
American Revolution (1776-1783)
Americans (US)
Amuesha (indigenous group)
Anarchism and Anarchists
Ancash, Peru (dept.)
Andahuaylillas, Peru (city)
Andahuaylas, Peru (prov.)
Andamarca, Peru (city)
Andaqui (indigenous group)
Andean Pact
Andean Region
Andes, Chile. (see Los Andes, Chile (city))
Andoque. (see Andaqui)
Anecdotes
Anglicans [60]
Angol, Chile (town)
Animal Remains
Animals
Annexationism
Antarctic Treaty System
Antarctica
Anthologies
Anthrolinguistics
Anthropologists
Anthropology}
Anthropometry
Antigua, Guatemala (city)
Anti-positivism. (see Positivism)
Antioquia, Colombia (dept.)
Antisemitism
Antofagasta, Chile (city)
Antofagasta, Chile (prov.)
Apalachee (indigenous group)
Apalakiri (indigenous group)
Apaseo el Grande, Mexico (town)
Apinagé (indigenous group)
Apinayé. (see Apinagé)
Apparitions and Miracles
Appropriate Technology
APRA (Peru)
Apure, Venezuela (state)
Apure River (Venezuela)
Apurímac, Peru (dept.)
Apurímac River (Peru)
Aqo Wayqo Site (Peru)
Ara, Domingo de
Arab Influences
Arabs
Aragonese Influences
Aragua, Venezuela (state)
Araguaia River Basin (Brazil)
Arapaço (indigenous group)
Arara (indigenous group)
Araucanía Region (Chile)
Araucanian. (see Mapuche)
Araucano. (see Mapuche)
Arawak (indigenous group)
Araweté (indigenous group)
Arbenz Guzmán, Jacobo
Archaeoastronomy [Note: spelling changed to Archeoastronomy in v. 59]
Archaeological Dating [Note: spelling changed to Archeological Dating in v. 59]
Archaeological Geography [Note: spelling changed to Archeological Geography in v. 59]
Archaeological Parks [Note: spelling changed to Archeological Parks in v. 59]
Archaeological Surveys [Note: spelling changed to Archeological Surveys in v. 59]
Archaeologists [Note: spelling changed to Archeologists in v. 59]
Archaeology [Note: spelling changed to Archeology in v. 59]
Archeoastronomy [Correct spelling beginning with v. 59]
Archeological Dating [Correct spelling beginning with v. 59]
Archeological Geography [Correct spelling beginning with v. 59]
Archeological Parks [Correct spelling beginning with v. 59]
Archeological Surveys [Correct spelling beginning with v. 59]
Archeologists [Correct spelling beginning with v. 59]
Archeology [Correct spelling beginning with v. 59]
Architects
Architecture
Archives
Archivos Mesoamericanos de Arqueología Regional (Mexico)
Arequipa, Peru (city)
Arequipa, Peru (dept.)
Arévalo, Juan José
Argentines
Arhuaco (indigenous group)
Arias Madrid, Harmodio
Arias Peace Plan (1987)
Arias Sánchez, Oscar
Arica, Chile (city)
Aripuana Park (Brazil)
Armação do Sul Site (Brazil)
Armaments
Armed Forces. (see Military)
Armenia, Colombia (city)
Armenians
Armero, Colombia (town)
Arms Control
Arms Industry and Trade
Art Auctions
Art Catalogs (see also Catalogs)
Art Collections
Art Criticism
Art History
Art Schools
Artifacts
Artisanry
Artisans
Artists
Asana Site (Peru)
Ashaninca. (see Campa)
Ashluslay (indigenous group)
Asian Influences
Asians
Asillo, Peru (city)
Asociación Latinoamericana de Instituciones Financieras de Desarrollo
Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración (ALADI)
Asociación Nacional de Industrias de Colombia (ANDI)
Assassinations
Assimilation. (see Acculturation)
Asto (indigenous group)
Astronomy
Asunción, Paraguay (city)
Atacama Desert (Chile)
Atacameño (indigenous group)
Atahualpa
Atalaya, Peru (city)
Athapascan (indigenous group)
Atlantic Coast (Nicaragua). (see Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras))
Atlántida, Honduras (dept.)
Atlases
Audiencia of Buenos Aires
Audiencia of Caracas
Audiencia of Charcas
Audiencia of Cuzco
Audiencia of Guatemala
Audiencia of Lima
Audiencia of Mexico
Audiencia of Nueva Galicia
Audiencia of Nueva Granada
Audiencia of Panama
Audiencia of Quito
Augustinians
Austerity Measures (see also Economic Stabilization)
Austrians
Authoritarianism
Authors
Autobiography
Automated Systems
Automobile Industry and Trade
Autonomy (see also Sovereignty)
Aves Island (Venezuela)
Aviation (see also Aeronautics)
Avila Camacho, Manuel
Awa. (see Cuaiquer)
Ayacucho, Peru (dept.)
Aycinena, Juan José de
Aymara (indigenous group)
Ayoreo. (see Moro (indigenous group))
Aysén, Chile (prov.)
Azángaro Site (Peru)
Azcapotzalco, Mexico (city)
Azoreans
Aztec Influences
Aztecs
Azua, Dominican Republic (prov.)
Azuay, Ecuador (prov.)
Azuero, Panama (peninsula)

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B

Bahamas
Bahia, Brazil (state)
Baja California, Mexico (region)
Baja California, Mexico (state)
Bajío, Mexico (region)
Baker River Region (Chile)
Balance of Payments
Balance of Trade
Balao Site (Ecuador)
Balbín, Ricardo
Balearic Islands (Spain)
Balsas River Basin (Mexico)
Banana Trade
Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica
Banco de Santo Domingo
Baniwa (indigenous group)
Banking and Financial Institutions
Bankruptcy
Banzer Suárez, Hugo
Baptists
Barasana (indigenous group)
Barbacoas, Colombia (city)
Barbados
Barbosa, Rui
Barbuda
Barca, Mexico. (see La Barca, Mexico (town))
Barco, Virgilio
Bari. (see Motilon (indigenous group))
Barinas, Venezuela (state)
Baroque Architecture
Baroque Art
Baroque Literature
Baroque Music
Barranquilla, Colombia (city)
Barrientes Ortuño, René
Baseball
Baskets
Basque Influences
Basques
Basse-Terre Island (Guadeloupe)
Bats
Bauré (indigenous group)
Bauxite
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
Beagle Channel (Argentina and Chile)
Bebedouro, Brazil (city)
Becan Site (Mexico)
Beekeeping
Belaúnde Terry, Fernando
Belém, Brazil (city)
Beliefs and Customs. (see Social Life and Customs; Religious Life and Customs)
Belize City, Belize
Belize River (Belize)
Bellamy, Edward
Bello, Andrés
Belmopan, Belize (city)
Belo Horizonte, Brazil (city)
Beni, Bolivia. (see El Beni, Bolivia (dept.))
Berdejo, Aurora
Bertrand, Alejandro
Betancourt, Rómulo
Betancur, Belisario
Bethlehemites
Betto, Frei
The Bible
Bibliography
Bilingual Education
Bilingualism
Bioarchaeology [Note: Spelling changed to Bioarcheology beginning with v. 59]
Biogeography
Biography
Biology
Biotechnology
Birds
Birth Control
Birth Rate
Bishop, Maurice
Bizarro Ujpán, Ignacio
Black Carib (indigenous group)
Black Indians. (see Rikbaktsa)
Black Legend
Black Market
Blacks
Blind
Blood Pressure, High. (see Hypertension)
Boa Vista, Brazil (city)
Bocas del Toro, Panama (prov.)
Boconó, Venezuela (city)
Bogotá, Colombia (city)
Bolero (music)
Bolívar, Colombia (dept.)
Bolívar, Venezuela (state)
Bolivian Food for Development Program
Bolivian Revolution (1952)
Bonampak Site (Mexico)
Bones
Boni (Suriname people)
Books
Boom (literature)
Bora (indigenous group)
Borderlands (see also Mexican-American Border Region)
Bororo (indigenous group)
Botanists
Botany
Boundaries
Boundary Disputes
Bourbon Reforms
Bouterse, Delano
Boyacá, Colombia (dept.)
Braga, Cincinato
Brain Drain
Brandt Report
Brasília, Brazil (city)
Brazilian Influences
Brazilianists
Brazilians
Breast Feeding
Bridges
Brigands and Robbers
British
British Influences
Buccaneers
Buddhism
Budget
Buenos Aires, Argentina (city)
Buenos Aires, Argentina (prov.)
Bulgarians
Bullfighters and Bullfighting [54]
Bureaucracy
Burials. (see Mortuary Customs; Cemeteries; Tombs)
Buritaca Site (Colombia)
Burnham, Forbes
Business Administration

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C

Caacupé, Paraguay (city)
Caaguazú, Paraguay (dept.)
Cabana, Peru (city)
Cabildos
Cabinet Officers
Cacao
Cacaxtla Site (Mexico)
Caciquismo. (see also Coronelismo; Political Corruption; Paternalism.)
CACM. (see Mercado Común Centroamericano)
Cafiero, Antonio
Caimanes III Site (Cuba)
Cajamarca, Peru (city)
Cajamarca, Peru (dept.)
Cajón Reservoir Region (Honduras)
Cakchikel (indigenous group)
Cakchiquel. (see Cakchikel)
Calakmul Site (Mexico)
Cálamo Site (Colombia)
Calchaquí Valley, Argentina (region)
Caldas, Colombia (dept.)
Calendrics
Cali, Colombia, (city)
California, US (state)
Calima River Basin (Colombia)
Callachaca Site (Peru)
Callahuaya (indigenous group)
Callao, Peru (city)
Callao, Peru (prov.)
Callejón de Huaylas, Peru (region)
Calles, Plutarco Elías
Calypso
Camagüey, Cuba (prov.)
Camico, Venancio
Campa (indigenous group)
Campaign Funds
Campbell, Lumberto
Campeche, Mexico (city)
Campeche, Mexico (state)
Campinas, Brazil (city)
Campos, Brazil (city)
Campos, Francisco
Camsa (indigenous group)
Canadians
Canajaste Site (Mexico)
Canals
Cañar, Ecuador (prov.)
Cañari (indigenous group)
Canary Islands (Spain)
Canary Islanders
Cancún, Mexico (city)
Candomblé (cult)
Candoshi (indigenous group)
Canelo (indigenous group)
Canelones, Uruguay (dept.)
Canelos Quichua. (see Canelo)
Cañete River Basin (Peru)
Cangahua, Ecuador (city)
Cannibalism
Canoeiro. (see Rikbaktsa)
Canoes and Canoeing
Canon Law
Cantón Milagro, Ecuador (prov.)
Canudos Rebellion (Brazil, 1893-1897)
Cap-Haïtien, Haiti (city)
Capinota, Bolivia (prov.)
Capital
Capital Flight
Capital Goods
Capital Punishment
Capitalism
Captives
Capuchins
Caquetá, Colombia (intendancy)
Caracas, Venezuela (city)
Caracol Site (Belize)
Carahuarazo Valley, Peru
Caraja (indigenous group)
Carajás, Brazil (region)
Carajás Project. (see Programa Grande Carajás)
Carchi, Ecuador (prov.)
Cardal Site (Peru)
Cardoza, Ramón I.
Carías, Tiburcio
Carib (indigenous group)
Caribbean Area
Caribbean Area Studies
Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute
Caribbean Influences
Caribbeans
Caricature
CARICOM. (see Caribbean Community)
Carijona (indigenous group)
Cáritas Internationalis
Carmelites
Carnival
Carora, Venezuela (city)
Caroní River Basin (Venezuela)
Carpio, Cayetano
Cartagena, Colombia (city)
Cartagena Agreement. (see Andean Pact)
Cartography. (see Maps and Cartography)
Cartoons
Carvajal, Carlos
Casas, Bartolomé de las
Casas Grandes, Mexico (city)
Casas Grandes Site (Mexico)
Cashibo (indigenous group)
Casma Valley, Peru
Caso, Alfonso
Caspigasí, Ecuador (city)
Casta, Peru (city)
Caste War (1847-1855)
Castilian Influences
Castro, Fidel
Castro Ruz, Raúl
Catacaos, Peru (town)
Catalan Influences
Catalans
Catalogs (see also Art Catalogs)
Catamarca, Argentina (prov.)
Catholic Church
Catholicism
Cattle Raising and Trade
Cauca, Colombia (dept.)
Caudillos
Cave Painting
Caves
Cayambe, Ecuador (town)
Cayapa (indigenous group) (Ecuador)
Cayapo (indigenous group) (Brazil)
Caye Caulker, Belize (island)
Cayenne, French Guiana (city)
Cayo Site (Mexico)
CBI. (see Caribbean Basin Initiative)
CD-ROMs
Ceará, Brazil (state)
Cemeteries (see also Mortuary Customs; Tombs)
Censorship
Censuses
Central American Common Market. (see Mercado Común Centroamericano)
Central American Compensation Chamber
Central American Monetary Council. (see Consejo Monetario Centroamericano)
Central Intelligence Agency. (see United States. Central Intelligence Agency)
Central-Local Government Relations (see also Federal-State Relations; Municipal Government; Regional Government)
Central, Paraguay (dept.)
Central Valley (Costa Rica). (see Valle Central)
CEPAL. (see Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
Ceramics
Ceramic Sculpture
Ceramic Tiles
Ceremonies. (see Rites and Ceremonies)
Cerezo, Marco Vinicio
Cerro Azul Site (Peru)
Cerro de Huistle Site (Mexico)
Cerro de la Malinche Site (Mexico)
Cerro de las Mesas Site (Mexico)
Cerro de Pasco Corporation
Cerro de Pasco, Peru (city)
Cerro Gordo Site (Mexico)
Cerro Palenque Site (Honduras)
Cerro Sechín Site (Peru)
Cerros Site (Belize)
Chachapoya (indigenous group)
Chaco, Argentina (prov.)
Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Chaco, Paraguay (region)
Chaco War (1932-1935)
Chalatenango, El Salvador (dept.)
Chalcatzingo Site (Mexico)
Chalchuapa, El Salvador (city)
Chalhuanca, Peru (city)
Chamacoco (indigenous group)
Chamiquín, Guatemala (city)
Chamorro, Pedro Joaquín
Chamula. (see Tzotzil)
Chan Chan Site (Peru)
Chanca (indigenous group)
Chancay Culture
Chancay River Basin (Peru)
Chandles River Basin (Peru)
Chao River Valley (Peru)
Chaparé, Bolivia (region)
Charato, Peru (city)
Charca (indigenous group)
Charcas, Bolivia (prov.)
Charcoal
Charrua (indigenous group)
Chatino (indigenous group)
Chaupiwaranga, Peru (city)
Chavín (indigenous group)
Chayahuita (indigenous group)
Chayanta, Bolivia (prov.)
Chemical Industry
Chemistry
Chiapanec (indigenous group)
Chiapas, Mexico (state)
Chibcha (indigenous group)
Chicago School of Economics
Chicama River Valley (Peru)
Chicanos. (see Mexican Americans)
Chicha
Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico)
Chichimecs (indigenous group)
Chicken
Chihuahua, Mexico (state)
Chilam Balam
Chilca River Basin (Peru)
Child Abuse
Child Development
Child Labor
Childbirth
Children
Children's Art
Children's Literature
Chilean Influences
Chileans
Chillán, Chile (city)
Chillón Valley (Peru)
Chiloé, Chile (prov.)
Chimane (indigenous group)
Chimbo (indigenous group)
Chimborazo, Ecuador (prov.)
Chimbote, Peru (city)
Chimu (indigenous group)
Chinampas
Chinantec (indigenous group)
Chinchero, Peru (city)
Chinese
Chipaya (indigenous group)
Chiquinquirá, Colombia (town)
Chiquito (indigenous group)
Chiriguano (indigenous group)
Chiripá (indigenous group)
Chiriquí, Panama (prov.)
Chiropractic
Choco (indigenous group) (Panamanian-Colombian Indians)
Chocó. (see Shocó (Brazilian Indians))
Chocó, Colombia (dept.)
Chol (indigenous group)
Cholula, Mexico (town)
Chontal (indigenous group)
Choroti (indigenous group)
Christian Base Communities
Christian Democracy
Christianity
Christians
Christmas
Chronology
Chubut, Argentina (prov.)
Chubut River Basin (Argentina)
Chumash (indigenous group)
Chuquisaca, Bolivia (city)
Chuquisaca, Bolivia (dept.)
Church Architecture
Church History
Church Records
Church-State Relations
Churches
Churumata (indigenous group)
CIA. (see United States. Central Intelligence Agency)
Ciénaga Site (El Salvador)
Cienfuegos, Cuba (prov.)
Cienfuegos, Fermán
Cihuatán Site (El Salvador)
Cihuatecpan Site (Mexico)
Cimientos Site. (see Los Cimientos Site (Mexico))
Cinema Novo
Cinnamon Industry
Cinta Larga (indigenous group)
Circus
Cisplatine War (1826-1828)
Cities and Towns
Citizenship
City Planning
Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (city)
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (city)
Civil-Military Relations
Civil Rights
Civil Service
Civil Society
Civil War
Class Conflict. (see Social Conflict; Social Classes)
Clergy
Clientelism
Cliff-dwellings
Climatology
Clothing Industry
Clothing and Dress
Coahuila, Mexico (state)
Coaiquer. (see Cuaiquer)
Coal Mining. (see Minerals and Mining Industry)
Coalición de Iniciativas para el Desarrollo
Coalitions
Coastal Areas
Coastal Engineering
Coatzacoalcos River (Mexico)
Cobá Site (Mexico)
Cobija, Bolivia (city)
Coca
Cocaine
Cocama (indigenous group)
Cocamilla. (see Cocama)
Cochabamba, Bolivia (city)
Cochabamba, Bolivia (dept.)
Cochagua, Chile (prov.)
Cochasquí Site (Ecuador)
Cockburn Town, Grand Turk Island (city)
Coclé, Panama (prov.)
Cocoa Industry and Trade
Code Switching (linguistics)
CODESA. (see Corporación Costarricense de Desarrollo)
Codex Borgia. (see Codices#Borgia)
Codex Dresden. (see Codices#Dresden)
Codex Laud. (see Codices#Laud)
Codex Porfirio Díaz. (see Codices#Porfirio Díaz)
Codex Tudela. (see Codices#Tudela)
Codex Vindobonensis. (see Codices#Vindobonensis)
Codices
Cognition
Cofán (indigenous group)
Coffee Industry and Trade
Coihueca, Chile (town)
Coins and Coinage
Coixtlahuaca, Mexico (town)
Colca River Basin (Peru)
Colha Site (Belize)
Colima, Mexico (state)
Colla (indigenous group)
Collective Bargaining (see also Negotiation)
Colombians
Colonial Administration
Colonial Architecture
Colonial Art}
Colonial History
Colonial Literature
Colonial Painting
Colonial Theater
Colonization
Colorado (indigenous group)
Columbus, Christopher
Columbus Quincentenary (1992)
Coluna Prestes (revolutionary movement)
Comayagua, Honduras (town)
COMECON. (see Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
Comic Books and Strips
Comissão Pró-Indio
Commerce
Commercial Art
Commercial Policy. (see Trade Policy)
Committee for Peasant Unity
Commodities
Communal Kitchens
Communication
Communism and Communist Parties
Community Development
Compadrazgo
Comparative Literature
Competition
Composers
Computer Networks
Computer Science
Computers
Comuneros. (see Insurrection of the Comuneros (Colombia, 1781); Insurrection of the Comuneros (Paraguay, 1730-1735))
Concepción, Chile (city)
Concepción, Chile (prov.)
Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina (dept.)
Conceptual Art
Condebamba River Valley (Peru)
Condega, Nicaragua (town)
Conductors (music)
Confederación de Trabajadores Cubanos
Confederación Unica (Bolivia)
Confederation of States
Conferences
Confessions
Confraternities
Congreso del Trabajo (Mexico)
Congresses
Conibo (indigenous group)
Conquerors
Conquistadors. (see Conquerors)
Consejo Intergubernamental de Países Exportadores de
Cobre y la Minería (CIPEC)
Consejo Monetario Centroamericano
Conservation (see also Environmental Protection)
Conservation and Restoration
Conservatism
Constitutional Conventions
Constitutional History
Constitutions
Construction Industry
Consumption (economics)
Contact. (see Cultural Contact.#X/Y)
Contadora. (see Grupo de Contadora)
Contadora Support Group. (see Grupo de los Ocho)
Contestado Insurrection (Brazil, 1912-1916)
Contras. (see Counterrevolutionaries)
Convents (see also Monasteries)
Cookery (see also Food)
Cooperatives
Copán, Honduras (city)
Copán Site (Honduras)
Copanaguastla, Mexico (city)
Coplas
Copper Industry and Trade
Coquimbo, Chile (city)
Cordillera, Paraguay (dept.)
Córdoba, Argentina (city)
Córdoba, Argentina (prov.)
Córdoba, Mexico (town)
Córdoba University Reform (1918)
Corn
Coro, Venezuela (town)
Corondó Site (Brazil)
Coronelismo (see also: Caciquismo; Political Corruption; Paternalism)
Corozal, Belize (district)
Corporación Costarricense de Desarrollo (CODESA)
Corporación Privada de Inversiones
Corporatism
Corrientes, Argentina (city)
Corrientes, Argentina (prov.)
Corruption (see also Political Corruption)
Cortés y Larraz, Pedro,#Archbishop
Cosmology
Cost and Standard of Living
Costa Rican Development Corporation. (see Corporación Costarricense de Desarrollo)
Costumbrismo
Costume and Adornment
Cotocollao Site (Ecuador)
Cotopaxi, Ecuador (prov.)
Cotton Industry and Trade
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)
Counterinsurgency
Counterrevolutionaries
Counterrevolutions
Coups d'Etat
Courantyne River Basin (Guyana)
Courts
Cowboys
Cozumel Island (Mexico)
Crafts. (see Artisanry)
Craho (indigenous group)
Craniology
Credit
Creole Languages
Crime and Criminals
Criollismo
Criollos
Cristero Rebellion (Mexico, 1926-1929)
Cronistas
Cuaiquer (indigenous group)
Cuautitlán, Mexico (town)
Cuban Americans
Cuban Intervention (1906-1909)
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Cuban Revolution (1959)
Cubans
Cúcuta, Colombia (city)
Cuello Site (Belize)
Cuenca, Ecuador (city)
Cuenca, Peru (city)
Cueva (indigenous group)
Cuiba (indigenous group)
Cuicatec (indigenous group)
Cuicuilco Site (Mexico)
Cuiva. (see Cuiba)
Cults
Cultural Adaptation. (see Acculturation)
Cultural Assimilation. (see Acculturation)
Cultural Collapse. (see Cultural Destruction)
Cultural Contact #X/Y
Cultural Destruction
Cultural Development
Cultural Geography (see also Human Geography)
Cultural History
Cultural Identity
Cultural Policy
Cultural Property
Cultural Studies [60]
Culture
Cumana
Cumanagoto. (see Cumana)
Cuna (indigenous group)
Cundinamarca, Colombia (dept.)
Cunha, Manuel Carneiro da
Curitiba, Brazil (city)
Curriculum
Curripaco (indigenous group)
Cusco. (see Cuzco)
Customary Law
Customs
Cuyo, Argentina (region)
Cuzco, Peru (city)
Cuzco, Peru (dept.)
Cyclones. (see Hurricanes)

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Dainzú Site (Mexico)
Dairy Industry
Dams
Dance
Danes
Darien Gap Highway (Colombia and Panama)
Database Searching
Databases
David, Panama (town)
Dávila, Pedrarias
Death (see also Mortality)
Death Squads
Debt. (see External Debt; Public Debt)
Debt Conversion
Decentralization
Declaration of Quito
Decolonization
Decorative Arts
Defectors
Defense Budgets
Defense Industries
Deforestation
Deities
Democracy
Democratization
Demography
Dental Studies
Dependency
Deportation
Depression (seeGreat Depression (1929)
Depressions (economic)
Deregulation
Desana (indigenous group)
Desaparecidos. (seeDisappeared Persons; Missing Persons)
Description and Travel
Desertification
Deserts
Design
Detective and Mystery Stories
Devaluation of Currency. (see Exchange Rates)
Developing Countries
Development
Development Projects
Di Tella, Torcuato S.
Diaguita (indigenous group)
Dialectology
Díaz, Porfirio
Dictator Novels
Dictators
Dictatorships
Dictionaries
Diglossia. (see Code Switching)
Diplomatic History
Diplomats
Directories
Dirty War (Argentina, 1976-1983)
Disappeared Persons (see also Missing Persons)
Disarmament. (see Arms Control)
Discourse Analysis
Discovery and Exploration
Discrimination
Diseases
Disinformation
Displaced Persons
Dispute Resolution
Dissenters
Dissertations and Theses
Distance Education
Distribution of Wealth. (see Income Distribution)
Distrito Federal, Brazil
Distrito Federal, Mexico
Divorce
Documentaries
Documentation Centers. (see Libraries)
Domestic Animals
Domestic Violence. (see Family Violence)
Domestics
Dominican-Haitian Conflict (1937)
Dominican Republic Conference on Trade and Financial Liberation in Latin America
Dominican Revolution (1965)
Dominicans (people)
Dominicans (religious order)
Donoso Torres, Vicente
Dorado, El. (see El Dorado)
Dowry
Drama}
Dramatists
Drax Hall Plantation Site (Jamaica)
Dreams
Dresden Codex. (see Codices#Dresden)
Dropouts
Droughts
Drug Abuse
Drug Enforcement
Drug Traffic
Drug Utilization
Drugs and Drug Trade. (see Pharmaceutical Industry; Drug Abuse; Drug Enforcement; Drug Traffic; Drug Utilization)
Duarte, José Napoleón
Durango, Mexico (state)
Dutch
Dutch Language
Duvalier, François
Duvalier, Jean-Claude
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Earthquakes
East Indians
Easter Island
Echeverría, Luis
ECLAC. (see Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
Ecological Complementarity
Ecological Crisis. (see Environmental Protection)
Ecology
Economic Anthropology
Economic Assistance, European
Economic Assistance, US
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Economic Conditions
Economic Destabilization. (see Economic Stabilization)
Economic Development
Economic Development Projects. (see Development Projects)
Economic Forecasting
Economic Geography
Economic Growth. (see Economic Development)
Economic History
Economic Indicators
Economic Integration (see also Free Trade; Regional Integration)
Economic Liberalization
Economic Models
Economic Planning. (see Economic Policy)
Economic Policy (see also Political Economy)
Economic Sanctions, European
Economic Sanctions, US
Economic Stabilization (see also Austerity Measures)
Economic Theory
Economics}
Economists
Ecotourism
Education and State. (see Educational Policy)
Education}
Educational Models
Educational Planning
Educational Policy
Educational Reform
Educational Research
Educational Sociology
Educational Surveys
Educational Technology
Educators
Ejidos
El Bajío, Mexico (region). (see Bajío, Mexico (region))
El Beni, Bolivia (dept.)
El Dorado
El Mirador Site (Guatemala). (see Mirador Site (Guatemala))
El Niño Current
El Oro, Ecuador (prov.)
El Paraíso Site (Peru)
El Salvadorans. (see Salvadorans
Elderly persons. (see Aged
Election Fraud
Election Monitoring
Elections
Electric Industries (see also Electronic Industries; Microelectronics Industry)
Electricity
Electronic Industries (see also Microelectronics Industry; Electric Industries)
Electronic Publishing
Electronic Resources
Elementary Education
Elites
Embera (indigenous group)
Emblems
Emigrant Remittances
Emigration and Immigration. (see Migration)
Employee Management
Employee Ownership (see also Profit Sharing)
Employment
Empresa Nacional de Minería (ENAMI)
Encomiendas
Encyclopedias
Endangered Species
Energy Consumption
Energy Policy
Energy Sources
Energy Supply
Engineering
Engineers
English Language
Engraving
Enlightenment
Enterprise for the Americas Initiative
Entre Ríos, Argentina (prov.)
Entrepreneurs
Environmental Degradation
Environmental Policy
Environmental Pollution
Environmental Protection (see also Conservation)
Environmental Protection Groups
Epigraphy (see also Inscriptions)
Epistemology [58]
Erotic Literature
Escuintla, Guatemala (dept.)
Esequiba. (see Essequibo Region (Guyana and Venezuela))
Esmeralda Site (Peru)
Esmeraldas, Ecuador (prov.)
Esperanza, Peru (region)
Espinar, Peru (city)
Espionage, US
Espírito Santo, Brazil (state)
Esquipulas II. (see Arias Peace Plan (1987))
Essays
Essequibo Region (Guyana and Venezuela)
Estable, Clemente
Ethanol
Ethics
Ethnic Groups and Ethnicity
Ethnoarchaeology [Note: Spelling changed to Ethnoarcheology beginning with v. 59]
Ethnobotany
Ethnoecology
Ethnoentomology
Ethnographers
Ethnography
Ethnohistorians
Ethnohistory
Ethnology
Ethnomusicologists
Ethnomusicology
Ethnozoology
Etymology
Eurocentrism
European Influences
European Union
Europeans
Evangelicalism
Evans, Clifford
Excavations
Exchange Rates
Executive Power
Exhibitions
Exiles
Existentialism
Expedición Malaspina (1789-1794)
Expeditions
Explorers
Export Promotion
Export Trading Companies
Exports
Expressionism
External Debt

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Falcón, Venezuela (state)
Falkland Islands
Falkland/Malvinas War (1982)
Family and Family Relations
Family Planning. (see Birth Control)
Family Violence
Fantastic Art
Fantastic Literature
Farms
Farrapos Revolution (Brazil, 1835-1845)
Fascism
Favelas. (see Slums; Squatter Settlements)
Feather-Work
Febres Cordero, León
FEDECAMARAS. (see Federación Venezolana de Cámaras y Asociaciones de Comercio y Producción)
Federación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas Bolivianas (FNMCB)
Federación Tupac Katari
Federación Venezolana de Cámaras y Asociaciones de Comercio y Producción (FEDECAMARAS)
Federal-State Relations (see also Central-Local Government; Federalism; Regional Government)
Federal Wars (Venezuela, 1859-1863)
Federalism (see also Federal-State Relations; Central-Local Government Relations)
Feminism
Fernheim, Paraguay (Mennonite colony)
Ferré, Luis A.
Ferrer, Aldo
Fertility. (see Human Fertility)
Fertilizers and Fertilizer Industry
Festivals
Fieldwork
Filho, Lorenzo
Filibuster War (Nicaragua, 1855-1860)
Filipinos
Film
Film Criticism
Film Industry
Filmmakers
Finance
Financial Institutions. (see Banking and Financial Institutions)
Financial Markets
Finns
Fire
Fiscal Policy [ie., taxation, public revenues, public debt]
Fish and Fishing
Flemish Influences
Floods
Flores Magón, Ricardo
Florianópolis, Brazil (city)
Florida, US (state)
Florida, Uruguay (dept.)
Flowers
FMLN. (see Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional)
Folk Art
Folk Dance
Folk Drama
Folk Literature
Folk Medicine. (see Traditional Medicine)
Folk Music
Folk Religion
Folklore
Folktales. (see Folk Literature; Legends)
Food (see also Cookery)
Food Industry and Trade
Food Supply
Forced Labor
Forced Migration
Ford Foundation
Foreign Aid. (see Economic Assistance)
Foreign Debt. (see External Debt)
Foreign Exchange. (see Exchange Rates)
Foreign Influences
Foreign Intervention, British [58]
Foreign Intervention, Cuban
Foreign Intervention, French
Foreign Intervention, US
Foreign Intervention, USSR
Foreign Investment
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy/US [58]
Foreign Trade. (see International Trade)
Forests and Forest Industry
Forgery
Fortaleza, Brazil (city)
Fortifications
Fountain Cavern Site (Anguilla)
Fountains
Franciscan Influences
Franciscans
Frank, André Gunder
Free Blacks
Free Trade (see also Economic Integration)
Freedom
Freedom of the Press
Freedmen
Freemasonry
Frei, Eduardo
Freire, Paulo
French
French Influences
French Language
French Revolution (1789-1799)
Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (El Salvador)
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional. (see Sandinistas (Nicaragua))
Friedman, Milton
Friendship. (see Interpersonal Relationships))
Frondizi, Arturo
Frontier and Pioneer Life
Frontiers [58]
Fruit Trade
Frutos Site (Paraguay)
Fuegians
Fundação Nacional do Indio (FUNAI)
Fundación de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Nacionales
Furniture
Furniture Industry and Trade
Futurism (art) [58]

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Gairy, Eric M.
Galán, Luis Carlos
Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
Galgada Site (Peru)
Galician Influences
Galicians
Gallegans. (see Galicians)
Galtieri, Leopoldo
Gambling [58]
Games
Gangs
Garbage. (see Organic Wastes; Hazardous Wastes)
García-Meza, Luis
García Pérez, Alan
Garifuna, Belize (city)
Garifuna. (see Black Carib)
Garza García, Mexico (municipality)
GATT. (see General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
Gauchos
Gavião (indigenous group)
Gazetteers
Gê (indigenous group)
Gender Relations [58]
Genealogy
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Generals
Genetics. (see Human Genetics)
Genocide
Geoglyphs
Geographers
Geographic Information Systems [59]
Geographical Dictionaries
Geographical History
Geographical Names
Geography
Geologists
Geology
Geomorphology
Geophysics
Geopolitics
Georgian Islands
German Influences
Germans
Glaciers
Glassware
Globalization
Global Warming
Goajiro (indigenous group)
Goiás, Brazil (state)
Gold
Goldwork
Gómez, Alvaro
Gómez, Enrique
González, Carlos
Good Neighbor Policy
Gophers
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich
Government Publications
Government Publicity
Government, Resistance to
Governors
Graffiti
Grammar
Gramsci, Antonio
Gran Sabana (Venezuela)
Graphic Arts
Grassroots Movements. (see Social Movements)
Grazing
Great Depression (1929)
Great Savannah. (see Gran Sabana)
Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas (island)
Grenada Invasion (1983)
Grenadians
Grenadines. (see Windward Islands)
Grijalva River (Mexico)
Gross Domestic Product
Gross National Product
Grupo de Contadora
Grupo de los Ocho
Guadalajara, Mexico (city)
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupes
Guahibo (indigenous group)
Guainía, Colombia (commissary)
Guajira, Colombia. (see La Guajira, Colombia (dept.))
Guajiro. (see Goajiro)
Gualaceo, Ecuador (town)
Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe
Guanacaste, Costa Rica (prov.)
Guanajuato, Mexico (state)
Guanano (indigenous group)
Guane (indigenous group)
Guano Industry
Guaporé River Valley (Brazil and Bolivia)
Guarana (psychotropic plant)
Guarani (indigenous group)
Guardia, Calderón
Guatemala, Guatemala (city)
Guayabas, Ecuador (prov.)
Guayabero (indigenous group)
Guayana Region (Venezuela)
Guayaqui (indigenous group)
Guayaquil, Ecuador (city)
Guayas, Ecuador (prov.)
Guaycuru (indigenous group)
Guaykuru. (see Guaycuru)
Guaymi (indigenous group)
Guerrero, Mexico (city)
Guerrero, Mexico (state)
Guerrillas
Guevara, Ernesto Che
Guiana Region
Guidebooks
Guilds (see also Trade Unions)
Guinea Pigs
Guitar
Gulf of Venezuela. (see Maracaibo Gulf (Colombia and Venezuela))
Gurdián, Galio

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Habana. (see La Habana, Cuba (city))
Haciendas
Haiku, Brazilian
Haitian Revolution (1787-1794)
Haitians
Hallucinogenic Drugs
Hammocks
Handicapped
Harakmbet. (see Mashco (indigenous group))
Havana. (see La Habana
Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl
Hazardous Wastes (see also Organic Wastes)
Health Care. (see Medical Care)
Hematology
Henequen Industry and Trade
Herders and Herding
Heredia, Costa Rica (city)
Heredia, Costa Rica (prov.)
Hidalgo, Mexico (state)
Hieroglyphics. (see Inscriptions; Writing; Epigraphy)
Higher Education
Higueras, Mexico. (see Las Higueras, Mexico (town))
Hinduism
Hironimo Site (Curação)
Hispanics (see also Latin Americans)
Hispaniola
Hispanists (See also Latin Americanists)
Historians
Historic Sites
Historical Demography
Historical Geography
Historiography
History}
Hitler, Adolf
Hmong
Holguín, Cuba (prov.)
Holocaust
Homosexuality
Honda, Colombia (city)
Hospitals
Horticulture
Hot-Air Baths
Hotel Industry
Households
Housing (see also Public Housing)
Housing Policy
Huambisa (indigenous group)
Huanca (indigenous group)
Huancané, Peru (prov.)
Huancavelica, Peru (city)
Huancavelica, Peru (dept.)
Huancayo, Peru (city)
Huanoquite, Peru (city)
Huánuco, Peru (prov.)
Huao (indigenous group)
Huarás, Peru (city)
Huari (indigenous group)
Huari Influences
Huari Site (Peru)
Huaro, Peru (city)
Huarpe (indigenous group)
Huastec (indigenous group)
Huasteca Region (Mexico)
Huatlatlauca, Mexico (town)
Huaynos (popular Peruvian music)
Huaynuná Site (Peru)
Huayopampa, Peru (city)
Huehuetenango, Guatemala (dept.)
Huichol (indigenous group)
Huilliche (indigenous group)
Huitoto. (see Witoto
Human Adaptation
Human Ecology
Human Fertility
Human Genetics
Human Geography (see also Cultural Geography)
Human Physiology
Human Remains
Human Resources
Human Rights
Human Variation
Humanism
Humor
Hungarians
Hunting
Hurricanes
Hurtado, Osvaldo
Hydration Rind Dating. (see Archeological Dating)
Hydroelectric Power
Hydrology
Hypertension

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Ica, Peru (dept.)
Ichilo, Bolivia (prov.)
Iconography (see also Precolumbian Art)
Ilheus, Brazil (city)
Illia, Arturo
Illegal Aliens, (nationality)#(country of illegal residence)
Illiteracy. (see Literacy and Illiteracy)
Illness. (see Diseases)
Illustrations [58]
Illustrators
Ilom, Gaspar
Imbabura, Ecuador (prov.)
Immigration. (see Migration)
Imperatriz, Brazil (city)
Imperialism
Import Substitution
Imports and Exports. (see International Trade)
Inca Influences
Incas
Incense
Income
Income Distribution
Incunabula
Indentured Servants
Independence Movements (see also Wars of Independence)
Indexation
Indexes
Indians. (see Indigenous Peoples; West Indians; East Indians)
Indigenismo and Indianidad
Indigenous Architecture. (see Vernacular Architecture)
Indigenous Art
Indigenous Influences
Indigenous Languages
Indigenous Music
Indigenous-Non Indigenous Relations
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Peoples#Influences on
Indigenous Peoples#Relations with X
Indigenous Peoples#Views of
Indigenous Policy
Indigenous Resistance
Indigo
Indochinese
Industrial Development Projects (see Development Projects)
Industrial Hygiene
Industrial Policy
Industrial Productivity
Industrial Promotion
Industrial Relations
Industrial Safety
Industrialists
Industry and Industrialization
Infant Mortality
Infants
Inflation
Informal Labor. (see Informal Sector)
Informal Sector
Information Science
Information Services
Information Technology
Inga Site (Brazil)
Inga Site (Ecuador)
Ingano (indigenous group)
Ingapirca Site (Ecuador)
Inheritance and Succession
Inquisition
Inscriptions (see also Epigraphy)
Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas
Insurance
Insurrection of the Comuneros (Colombia, 1781)
Insurrection of the Comuneros (Paraguay, 1730-1735)
Insurrection of Túpac Amaru (1780-1781)
Insurrection of Túpac Katari (1780-1781)
Insurrections
Integrated Rural Development Project (Jamaica)
Intellectual Freedom. (see Academic Freedom
Intellectual History
Intellectuals
Intelligence Service (see also Espionage)
Inter-American Development Bank
Inter-American Dialogue
Inter-American Foundation
Inter-Tribal Relations#X/Y
Interest Groups. (see Pressure Groups)
Interest Rates
Internal Migration. (see Migration)
Internal Stability. (see Political Stability)
International Agreements
International Arbitration
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. (see World Bank
International Court of Justice
International Economic Relations#X/Y
International Finance
International Labor Office
International Law
International Migration. (see Migration
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
International Relations#X/Y
International Trade
International Trade Relations#X/Y
Internet
Interpersonal Relationships
Intervention, US. (see Foreign Intervention, US)
Intervention, USSR. (see Foreign Intervention, USSR)
Intoxicants. (see Stimulants)
Inventors [58]
Investment. (see Saving and Investment; Public Investments; Foreign Investment)
Iquique, Chile (city)
Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1990)
Irish
Iron Industry and Trade
Irrigation
Isabela, Dominican Republic. (see La Isabela, Dominican Republic (settlement))
Isla Cerritos Site (Mexico)
Islamic Influences
Islands
Islay, Peru (prov.)
Itaipú Dam
Italian Influences
Italian Language
Italians
Itatí, Argentina (town)
Ivory Carving
Izabal, Guatemala (dept.)
Izapa Site (Mexico)

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Jacalteca (indigenous group)
Jacaltenango, Guatemala (town)
Jacmel, Haiti (city)
Jacobins
Jade
Jaén, Peru (city)
Jalisco, Mexico (state)
Jamaica Banana Producers Association
Jaminaua (indigenous group)
Jan Mitchell Collection
Japanese
Japanese Influences
Jardín del Este Site (Ecuador)
Javanese
Jazz
Jesuits
Jews (see also Judaism)
Jicaque (indigenous group)
Jincamocco Site (Peru)
Jiqualpan de Juárez, Mexico (town)
Jivaro. (see Shuar)
João Pessoa, Brazil (city)
John Paul II, Pope
Journalism
Journalists
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor
Juan Fernández Archipelago, Chile (islands)
Juárez, Mexico (city). (see Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico (town)
Judaism (see also Jews)
Judges
Judicial Power
Juiz de Fora, Brazil (city)
Jujuy, Argentina (prov.)
Jukumani (indigenous group)
Juliaca, Peru (city)
Junín, Peru (dept.)
Juruna. (see Yuruna (indigenous group))
Juvenile Delinquents
Juvenile Literature. (see Children's Literature)

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Ka'apor. (see Urubu)
Kagaba (indigenous group)
Kaingangue (indigenous group)
Kalapalo. (see Apalakiri)
Kalinya. (see Carib (indigenous group))
Kamaiurá (indigenous group)
Kapon (indigenous group)
Katarismo Movement (Bolivia)
Kayapó. (see Cayapo)
Kekchi (indigenous group)
Kidnapping
Kings and Rulers
Kingston, Jamaica (city)
Kinship
Kirberg, Enrique
Kissinger Commission
Kogi. (see Kagaba
Krahó. (see Craho)
Kuikuru (indigenous group)
Kumina (cult)
Kuna. (see Cuna)
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La Barca, Mexico (town)
La Ciénaga Site. (see Ciénaga Site (El Salvador))
La Esmeralda Site. (see Esmeralda Site (Peru))
La Guajira, Colombia (dept.)
La Habana, Cuba (city)
La Isabela, Dominican Republic (settlement)
La Libertad, Peru (dept.)
La Ligua, Chile (city)
La Pampa, Argentina (prov.)
La Paz, Bolivia (city)
La Paz, Bolivia (dept.)
La Plata, Argentina (city)
La Rinconada Site. (see Rinconada Site (Argentina))
La Rioja, Argentina (prov.)
La Serena, Chile (city)
La Violencia (Colombia). (see Violencia)
La (Colombia)
Labarca Hubertson, Amanda
Labor and Laboring Classes
Labor Market
Labor Movement
Labor Policy
Labor Supply
Lacandon (indigenous group)
Lace and Lace Making
Ladinos
Laguna de Punta Negra (Chile)
Lake Amatitlán (Guatemala)
Lake Atitlán (Guatemala)
Lake Tagua Tagua (Chile)
Lake Titicaca (Peru and Bolivia)
Lake Victoria (Venezuela)
Lamanai, Belize (city)
Lambayeque, Peru (dept.)
Land Invasions
Land Reform
Land Settlement (see also Agricultural Colonization)
Land Tax
Land Tenure
Land Use
Landowners
Landowners, US
Landscape Painting
Landslides
Language Acquisition
Language and Languages
Lanusse, Alejandro Agustín
Lara Bonilla, Rodrigo
Lara, Venezuela (state)
Las Higueras, Mexico (town)
Las Villas, Cuba (prov.)
Latacunga, Ecuador (city)
Latifundios
Latin American Area Studies
Latin American Economic System. (see Sistema Económico Latinoamericano)
Latin American Influences
Latin Americanists (see also Hispanists)
Latin Americans (see also Hispanics)
Lau, Hazel
Law and Legislation
Lawyers
Laymi (indigenous group)
Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico (city)
Lead-poisoning
Leasing
Leather Industry and Trade
Lebanese
Legends
Legislative Bodies
Legislative Power
Legislators
Lempira (cacique)
Lenca (indigenous group)
Lengua (indigenous group)
León, Mexico (city)
León, Nicaragua (city)
Lepaterique, Honduras (village)
Leprosy
Levingston, Roberto Marcelo
Lexicology
Lexicons. (see Dictionaries)
Liberalism
Liberation Theology
Libertad, Peru. (see La Libertad, Peru (dept.))
Libertarianism (see also Anarchism and Anarchists)
Libraries
Library Catalogs
Library Information Systems
Library Resources
Library Science and Services}
Life Expectancy
Ligua, Chile. (see La Ligua, Chile (city))
Lima, Peru (city)
Lima, Peru (dept.)
Lime and Lime Making
Limón, Costa Rica (prov.)
Linguistic Geography
Linguistic Minorities
Linguistics
Literacy and Illiteracy
Literary Criticism}
Literatura de Cordel
Literature}
Lithics. (see Stone Implements)
Lithography
Livestock
Llamas
Llanos
Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia (region)
Llanos Orientales Region (Colombia and Venezuela)
Loan Words
Lobbyists. (see Pressure Groups)
Local Elections
Local Government. (see Municipal Government)
Local Transit
Logic
Loja, Ecuador (city)
Loja, Ecuador (prov.)
Loma Alta Site (Argentina)
Loma San Gabriel, Mexico (city)
London, England (city)
López Arellano, Oswaldo
López Portillo, José
Lorena, Brazil (city)
Loreto, Peru (dept.)
Los Andes, Chile (city)
Los Cimientos Site (Mexico)
Los Santos, Panama (prov.)
Los Teques, Venezuela (city)
Lota, Chile (city)
Low Intensity Conflicts
Lucayan (indigenous group)
Luder, Italo
Lukurmata Site (Bolivia)
Lupaqa (indigenous group)
Luribay, Bolivia (town)
Lusinchi, Jaime
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M-19 (Colombian guerrilla group)
Macá (indigenous group)
Macaé, Brazil (city)
Macaguaje (indigenous group)
Macanché Island Site (Guatemala)
Macapá, Brazil (city)
Machaca, Jesús de
Machala, Ecuador (city)
Machiganga. (see Machiguenga)
Machiguenga (indigenous group)
Machismo. (see Sex Roles)
Machu Picchu Site (Peru)
Macú (indigenous group)
Macuna (indigenous group)
Macusi (indigenous group)
Madre de Dios, Peru (dept.)
Madrid Hurtado, Miguel de la
Mafia
Magallanes, Chile (prov.)
Magdalena River (Colombia)
Magellan Strait
Magic
Magic Realism (art)
Magic Realism (literature)
Maguey
Mai Huna. (see Orejón (indigenous group))
Maids. (see Domestics)
Maize. (see Corn)
Majes, Peru (city)
Mak'a. (see Macá)
Makú. (see Macú)
Makuna. (see Macuna)
Malaria
Maldonado, Alonso
Maler, Teobert
Mallku (indigenous group)
Malnutrition. (see Nutrition)
Malvinas, Islas. (see Falkland Islands)
Mam (indigenous group)
Man
Manabí, Ecuador (prov.)
Managua, Nicaragua (city)
Manatees
Manáos (indigenous group)
Manaus, Brazil (city)
Maneta Site (Venezuela)
Manioc
Manizales, Colombia (city)
Manley, Michael
Manta, Ecuador (town)
Mantovani, Juan
Manufactures
Manuscripts
Maosim [58]
Maps and Cartography
Mapuche (indigenous group)
Mapuche Influences
Maqui, Rumi
Maquiladoras
Mar del Plata, Argentina (city)
Maracaibo Gulf (Colombia and Venezuela)
Maracaibo Lake, Venezuela
Maracaibo, Venezuela (city)
Marajó Island (Brazil)
Maranhão, Brazil (state)
Marañón River Region (Peru)
Maras, Peru (city)
Marcelina-Kué Site (Paraguay)
Mariátegui, José Carlos
Mariel, Cuba (city)
Marihuana
Marimba
Marine Biology
Marine Resources
Marinilla, Colombia (city)
Maritime History (see also Naval History)
Maritime Law
Marka T'ula, Santos
Market Surveys
Marketing
Markets
Maroons
Marquina, Ignacio
Marranos
Marriage
Marroquín, Francisco
Martial Law
Martinique
Maruba (indigenous group)
Marxism
Mashco (indigenous group)
Masks
Masons. (see Freemasonry)
Mass Media (see also Underground Press)
Massacres
Mataco (indigenous group)
Matanzas, Cuba (prov.)
Mate (tea)
Material Culture
Mathematics
Matlatzinca (indigenous group)
Mato Grosso, Brazil (state)
Matsigenka. (see Machiguenga)
Maue (indigenous group)
Mayas
Mayna (indigenous group)
Mayo (indigenous group)
Mazahua (indigenous group)
Mazatec (indigenous group)
Mbaya. (see Guaycuru)
Mbya (indigenous group)
MCCA. (see Mercado Común Centroamericano)
Meat Industry
Meco Site (Mexico)
Medals
Medellín, Colombia (city)
Mediation, International. (see International Arbitration)
Medical Anthropology
Medical Care
Medical Education
Medicinal Plants
Medicine
Mehinacu
Melipilla, Chile (city)
Méndez, Modesto
Mendoza, Argentina (city)
Mendoza, Argentina (prov.)
Mennonites
Mental Health
Mercado Común Centroamericano
Mercantile System
Mercedarians
Mercenaries
Merchant Marines
Merchants
MERCOSUL. (see MERCOSUR)
MERCOSUR
Merengue
Mérida, Venezuela (city)
Mérida, Venezuela (prov.)
Mérida, Venezuela (state)
Mescal
Messianism
Mestizos and Mestizaje
Meta, Colombia (dept.)
Metal-Work
Metallurgy
Metaphysics
Meteorology
Methodology
Metla, Mexico (city)
Mexica. (see Aztecs)
Mexicali Valley (Mexico)
Mexican-American Border Region (see also Borderlands)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Mexican Americans
Mexican Influences
Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)
Mexicans
México, Mexico (city)
México, Mexico (state)
Michoacán, Mexico (state)
Microelectronics Industry (see also Electric Industries; Electronic Industries)
Miculla Site (Peru)
Middle Classes
Migrant Labor
Migration (see also Migration)
Migration#X/Y (Migration from country X to Y)
Migration Policy
Militarism
Military
Military Assistance, US
Military Assistance, USSR
Military Government
Military History
Military Occupation, US
Military Police
Military Policy
Military Uniforms
Millennialism
Minas Gerais, Brazil (state)
Minerals and Mining Industry
Minimal Art
Minorcans
Minorities
Mirador Site (Guatemala)
Miraflores, Colombia (city)
Miraña (indigenous group)
Miranda, Venezuela (state)
Misiones, Argentina (prov.)
Miskito. (see Mosquito
Miskito Coast. (see Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
Missing Persons (see also Disappeared Persons)
Mission of the Evangelical Brethren
Missionaries
Missions
Mita
Mitla, Mexico (village)
Mitterand, François
Mixe (indigenous group)
Mixtec (indigenous group)
Moche. (see Mochica
Mochica (indigenous group)
Mocobi (indigenous group)
Mocovi. (see Mocobi
Modern Architecture
Modern Art
Modernism (architecture)
Modernism (art)
Modernism (literature)
Modernization
Mojo (indigenous group)
Moles
Mollendo, Peru (city)
Monarchism
Monarchs. (see Kings and Rulers)
Monasteries (see also Convents)
Monasticism and Religious Orders
Monetary Policy [ie., flow of money]
Monetary Reform
Monetary Unions
Money
Money Laundering
Money Supply
Monge, Luis Alberto
Monjes Islands (Venezuela)
Monopolies
Monsanto, Pablo
Monte Albán Site (Mexico)
Monte Verde Site (Chile)
Montego Bay, Jamaica (city)
Montegrande Site (Peru)
Montejo, Víctor D.
Monterrey, Mexico (city)
Montes Claros, Brazil (city)
Montevideo, Uruguay (city)
Montoneros (Argentina)
Montserrat
Monuments
Morales Bermúdez, Francisco
Morals. (see Ethics)
Morán, Rolando
Moravians
Morelia, Mexico (city)
Morelos, Mexico (state)
Mormons
Morne-des-Esses, Martinique (city)
Morne-Vert, Martinique (city)
Moro (indigenous group)
Morona-Santiago, Ecuador (prov.)
Morphology (linguistics)
Mortality (see also Death)
Mortuary Customs (see also Cemeteries; Tombs)
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
Mosquito (indigenous group)
Motherhood
Motilon (indigenous group)
Motozintla, Mexico (city)
Motozintlec (indigenous group)
Mounds
Mount Pelée (Martinique)
Mountaineering
Mouvement des ouvriers et paysans (MOP)
Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (Uruguay)
Moxo. (see Mojo)
Moyobamba, Peru (town)
Muisca. (see Chibcha)
Mujica, Héctor
Mulattoes
Muleteers [58]
Multiculturalism [60]
Multinational Corporations
Mummies
Mundurucu (indigenous group)
Municipal Government (see also Central-Local Government; Regional Government)
Municipal Services
Muñoz Marín, Luis
Mura (indigenous group)
Mural Painting
Murals
Murato. (see Candoshi)
Murui (indigenous group)
Museu Goeldi (Brazil)
Museums
Music}
Musical History
Music Industry
Musical Instruments
Musicals (see also Tonadillas; Zarzuelas)
Musicians
Musicologists
Musicology
Muslims
Muzo (indigenous group)
Mysticism
Myths and Mythology

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Nacional Financiera (NAFIN)
Nahuas (indigenous group)
Nambicuara (indigenous group)
Names
Napo, Ecuador (prov.)
Napo River Basin (Ecuador and Peru)
Nariño, Colombia (dept.)
Nasca. (see Nazca)
National Autonomy. (see Autonomy)
National Bureau of Economic Research Conference
National Characteristics
National Federation of Bolivian Peasant Women. (see Federación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas Bolivianas)
National Identity. (see National Characteristics)
National Income
National Parks and Reserves. (seeParks and Reserves)
National Patrimony
National Security
National Songs
Nationalism
Nationalization
Nativistic Movements
Natural Disasters
Natural Gas
Natural History
Natural Resources
Naturalism
Nature
Navajo (indigenous group)
Naval History (see also Maritime History)
Navies
Navigation
Nayarit, Mexico (state)
Nazca (indigenous group)
Nazca Lines Site (Peru)
Nazca, Peru (city)
Nazca Valley Region (Peru)
Negotiation (see also Collective Bargaining)
Négritude
Neighborhood Associations
Neighborhood Government
Neoclassicism (architecture)
Neoclassicism (literature)
Nepeña River Valley (Peru)
Neuquén, Argentina (city)
Neuquén, Argentina (prov.)
Neutrality (see also Non-Aligned Nations)
Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia (volcano)
New Atlantic Triangle Conference (1981-1982)
New International Economic Order
New Jewel Movement (Grenada)
New Left
New Mexico, United States
New Providence Island, Bahamas
New World Order
New York, New York (city)
News Agencies
Newspapers
Ngawbere (indigenous group)
Nicaraguan Revolution (1979)
Nicaraguans
Nicarao (indigenous group)
Nicoya, Costa Rica (city)
Nieto Caballero, Agustín
Niño Current. (see El Niño Current)
Nitrate Industry
Nivaclé. (see Ashluslay)
Nivaklé. (see Ashluslay)
Nobility
Nohmul Site (Belize)
Non-Aligned Nations (see also Neutrality)
Nonformal Education
Nongovernmental Organizations
Nonviolence
Nordeste, Brazil (region)
Norte Grande, Chile (region)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Notaries
Nova Lima, Brazil (city)
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Policy
Nuclear Weapons
Nuevo León, Mexico (state)
Nuevo Orden Económico Internacional. (see New International Economic Order)
Núñez, Carlos
Nunoa, Peru (city)
Nuns
Nutrition

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O'Higgins, Chile (prov.)
OAS. (see Organization of American States (OAS))
Oaxaca, Mexico (city)
Oaxaca, Mexico (state)
Obsidian
Occupational Education
Occupational Training
Oceanography
Oceloapan Site (Mexico)
Ocelots
Ocho Rios, Jamaica (city)
Ocuituco, Mexico (village)
Odría, Manuel
Oduber, Daniel
Oidores. (see Judges)
Ojojona, Honduras (village)
Olinda, Brazil (city)
Olmec Influences
Olmecs (indigenous group)
Ona (indigenous group)
Onganía, Juan Carlos
Online Bibliographic Searching. (see Database Searching)
Opera
Operación Condor [57]
Operettas. (see Zarzuelas; Tonadillas; Musicals)
Opposition Groups
Oral History
Oral Tradition
Orejón (indigenous group)
Organic Wastes (see also Hazardous Wastes)
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
Organs
Orinoco River Region (Venezuela and Colombia)
Oro, Ecuador. (see El Oro, Ecuador (prov.))
Ortega, Humberto
Oruro, Bolivia (dept.)
Otavalo, Ecuador (town)
Otavalo (indigenous group)
Otomi (indigenous group)
Otuzco, Peru (prov.)
Ouro Preto, Brazil (town)
Outlaws
Oyampi (indigenous group)
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Pacaas Novos (indigenous group)
Pacaipampa, Peru (city)
Pacajes, Bolivia (prov.)
Pacariqtambo, Peru (town)
Pachacamac Site (Peru)
Pacific Area
Pacific Coast (Colombia)
Pacobamba, Peru (city)
Paez (indigenous group)
Paiján Culture
Painters
Painting
Palena River (Chile)
Palenque, Mexico (city)
Palenque Site (Mexico)
Paleo-Indians
Paleobotany
Paleoclimatology
Paleoecology
Paleogeography
Paleogeology
Paleography
Paleoindians. (see Paleo-Indians)
Palicur (indigenous group)
Palms
Palogordo Site (Colombia)
Paloma Site (Peru)
Palynology
Pampa, Argentina. (see La Pampa, Argentina (prov.))
Pampas, Argentina (region)
Pampas-la Florida, Peru (city)
Pan-Americanism
Panama Canal
Panama Canal Treaties (1977)
Panama Invasion (1989) [57]
Panamá, Panama (city)
Panare (indigenous group)
Pando, Bolivia (dept.)
Pané, Ramón
Pantanal, Brazil (region)
Papantla de Olarte, Mexico (town)
Papermaking
Papiamento (language)
Pará, Brazil (state)
Paracas Site (Peru)
Paraguayan War (1865-1870)
Paraguayans
Paraíba, Brazil (state)
Paraíso Site. (see El Paraíso Site (Peru))
Paramaribo, Suriname (city)
Paramilitary Forces
Paramos (geographical feature)
Paraná, Brazil (state)
Parasites
Paraujano (indigenous group)
Parenthood
Parinacochas, Peru (town)
Paris, France (city)
Parks and Reserves
Parliamentary Systems. (see Political Systems)
Parque Nacional del Manu (Peru)
Parque Nacional do Xingu (Brazil)
Partido Aprista Peruano. (see APRA (Peru))
Partido Blanco. (see Partido Nacional (Uruguay))
Partido Comunista Brasileiro
Partido Comunista de Costa Rica
Partido de la Revolución Democrática (Mexico)
Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil)
Partido Nacional (Uruguay)
Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Mexico)
Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro
Pasco, Peru (dept.)
Pasto (indigenous group)
Pasto, Colombia (city)
Pastora Gómez, Edén
Pastures
Patagonia (region)
Patagonia, Argentina (prov.)
Patambán, Mexico (town)
Patarata Site (Mexico)
Paternalism
Pátzcuaro, Mexico (town)
Paulista, Brazil (city)
Paya (indigenous group)
Paz, La. (see La Paz, Bolivia (city)
Paz, La. (see La Paz, Bolivia (dept.)
Peace
Peacekeeping Forces [59]
Peanut Industry
Peasant Movements
Peasant Uprisings
Peasants
Peddlers. (see Informal Sector)
Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil
Pehuenche (indigenous group)
Pejibaye, Costa Rica (city)
Pemón (indigenous group)
Pensacola, Florida (city)
Pensions [57]
Pentecostalism
Pérez Jiménez, Marcos
Performing Arts
Periodicals
Periodization
Pernambuco, Brazil (state)
Perón, Eva
Perón, Isabel
Perón, Juan Domingo
Peronism
Persian Gulf War (1991)
Personal Narrative. (see Oral Tradition; Autobiography)
Peru-Bolivian Confederation (1836-1839)
Pesticides
Petén, Guatemala (dept.)
Pétion-Ville, Haiti (city)
Petrochemical Industry
Petroglyphs. (see Rock Art)
Petroleum Industry and Trade
Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmacy [58]
Phenomenology
Philanthropists
Philosophers
Philosophy of Liberation. (see Liberation Theology)
Philosophy}
Phonology
Photography
Physical Anthropology
Physical Education and Training
Physical Geography
Physicians
Physics
Phytogeography. (see Biogeography)
Piaroa (indigenous group)
Piauí, Brazil (state)
Picaresque Literature
Pictorial Works
Pichincha, Ecuador (prov.)
Pico de Orizaba, Mexico (city)
Pictographs
Pictorial Works
Piedras Negras, Mexico (region)
Pijao (indigenous group)
Pilaga (indigenous group)
Pilchaca, Peru (city)
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages
Pima (indigenous group)
Pinar del Río, Cuba (prov.)
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
Pipil (indigenous group)
Pirates
Piro (indigenous group)
Pisac, Peru (city)
Pital Site (Colombia)
Piura, Peru (city)
Piura, Peru (dept.)
Placetas, Cuba (town)
Plant Remains
Plantations
Plants
Plata, Argentina. (see La Plata, Argentina (city))
Plata River Valley (Colombia)
Plazas
Plebiscites. (see Referendums)
Pluralism
Poets
Point Placencia Archaeological Project
Poisons
Pokomam, Guatemala (region)
Pokomam (indigenous group)
Poles
Police
Political Bosses
Political Boundaries. (see Boundaries)
Political Campaigns. (see Elections)
Political Candidates. (see Politicians)
Political Conditions
Political Corruption (see also Corruption)
Political Crimes
Political Culture
Political Development
Political Economy (see also Economic Policy)
Political History
Political Ideology
Political Institutions
Political Integration
Political Left
Political Opposition. (see Opposition Groups)
Political Participation
Political Parties
Political Persecution
Political Philosophy
Political Prisoners
Political Psychology
Political Reform
Political Science}
Political Sociology
Political Stability
Political Systems
Political Theater
Political Theory
Political Thought
Politicians
Pollution. (see Environmental Pollution)
Polynesians
Ponce, Puerto Rico (city)
Poor (see also Poverty)
Popayán, Colombia (city)
Popol Vuh
Popoluca (indigenous group)
Popular Art
Popular Culture
Popular Education. (see Nonformal Education)
Popular Literature
Popular Movements. (see Social Movements)
Popular Music
Popular Religion
Popular Theater
Population Forecasting
Population Genetics. (see Human Genetics)
Population Growth
Population Policy
Population Studies. (see Demography)
Populism
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (city)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (city)
Porto Alegre, Brazil (city)
Portobelo, Panama (village)
Portraits
Ports
Portuguesa, Venezuela (state)
Portuguese #Portuguese Relations with X
Portuguese Conquest
Portuguese Influences
Portuguese Language
Positivism
Postage Stamps
Postal Cards. (see Postcards)
Postal Service
Postcards
Postmodernism [58]
Potatoes
Potiguara (indigenous group)
Potosí, Bolivia (city)
Potosí, Bolivia (dept.)
Pottery
Poultry Industry
Poverty (see also Poor)
Precolumbian Architecture
Precolumbian Art (see also Iconography)
Precolumbian Civilizations
Precolumbian Land Settlement Patterns
Precolumbian Pottery
Precolumbian Sculpture
Precolumbian Textiles
Precolumbian Trade
Pregnancy
Prehistory. (see Archeology)
Premio Juan J.
Preschool Education
Presidential Systems. (see Political Systems)
Presidents
Press. (see Mass Media)
Pressure Groups
Prices
Prieto Figueroa, Luis
Primary Education. (see Elementary Education)
Prime Ministers
Printers. (see Printing Industry)
Printing Industry
Prints
Prisoners
Prisons
Private Education
Private Enterprise
Private Libraries
Private Schools
Privatization
Procedure to Establish Steady and Long-Standing Peace in Central America. (see Arias Peace Plan (1987))
Production (economics)
Productivity
Professional Education
Professions
Profit Sharing (see also Employee Ownership)
Programa Grande Carajás
Programa Nacional de Empleo (PRONEM, Mexico)
Propaganda [58]
Property
Prostitution
Protectionism
Protestant Churches
Protestantism
Protestants
Protests
Provincialisms
Proyecto Prehistórico Arenal (Costa Rica)
Psychiatry
Psychological Warfare
Psychology
Public Administration
Public Debt
Public Education
Public Enterprises
Public Finance
Public Health
Public Housing
Public Investments (see also Saving and Investment)
Public Opinion
Public Policy
Public Schools
Public Service Employment
Public Spaces [59]
Public Transportation. (see Local Transit; Transportation)
Public Works
Publishers and Publishing
Pucallpa, Peru (city)
Puebla, Mexico (city)
Puebla, Mexico (state)
Pueblo Indians [58]
Puelche (indigenous group)
Puerto Arturo Site (Colombia)
Puerto Real Site (Haiti)
Puerto Ricans
Pulque
Puno, Peru (dept.)
Punta Arenas, Chile (city)
Punta Baja Site (Chile)
Punta del Este, Uruguay (city)
Punta Gorda, Belize (city)
Puppets and Puppet Plays
Purchasing Power [59]
Putumayo River Basin
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Q'ero, Peru (town)
Quality of Life
Quarries
Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina (region)
Quechua (indigenous group)
Querétaro, Mexico (city)
Querétaro, Mexico (state)
Quíbor, Venezuela (city)
Quiché (indigenous group)
Quijarro (indigenous group)
Quijo (indigenous group)
Quillacinga (indigenous group)
Quilpué, Chile (city)
Quincentennial. (see Columbus Quincentenary (1992))
Quindío, Colombia (dept.)
Quinquén Valley (Chile)
Quintana Roo, Mexico (state)
Quiriguá, Guatemala (city)
Quiriguá Site (Guatemala)
Quito, Ecuador (city)


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Rabinal, Guatemala (region)
Race and Race Relations
Racism
Radicalism
Radio
Radio Havana
Railroads
Rain and Rainfall
Rainforests
Rama (indigenous group)
Ramírez, William
Ramos Sánchez, Pablo
Ranquel (indigenous group)
Rape
Rare Books
Rastafarian Movement
Reagan, Ronald
Real Alto Site (Ecuador)
Realism
Rebellions. (see Insurrections)
Recessions
Recife, Brazil (city)
Reclamation of Land. (see Land Invasions; Land Reform; Land Tenure)
Red Cross
Red de Documentación en Educación para América Latina (REDUC)
Redemocratization. (see Democratization)
Redistribution of Wealth. (see Income Distribution)
Reference Books
Referendums
Reforestation
Refugee Act (1980)
Refugees, (nationality)#(country of refuge)
Reggae Music
Regional Development
Regional Government (see also Central-Local Government; Federal-State Relations; Municipal Government)
Regional Integration (see also Economic Integration; Political Integration)
Regional Planning
Regionalism
Reiche, Maria
Reincarnation
Religion
Religion and Politics
Religious Art
Religious Life and Customs
Religious Music
Remedios, Cuba (town)
Remittances. (see Emigrant Remittances)
Remote Sensing
Repatriation
Repression
Republicanism
Rescue Archaeology [Note: Spelling changed to Rescue Archeology beginning with v. 59]
Research
Research Institutes
Reviews
Revolution of the Comuneros. (see Insurrection of the Comuneros (Paraguay, 1730-1735))
Revolutionaries
Revolutionary Literature
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (city)
Rice Trade
Rikbaktsa (indigenous group)
Rinconada Site (Argentina)
Río Azul Site (Guatemala)
Río Cuarto, Argentina (town)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (city)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (state)
Río de la Plata Battle (1939)
Río de la Plata (region)
Río Gallegos, Argentina (city)
Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (state)
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (state)
Río Napo, Ecuador. (see Napo River Basin)
Río Negro, Argentina (prov.)
Río Protocol (treaty)
Río Turbio, Argentina (city)
Riobamba, Ecuador (city)
Rioja, Argentina. (see La Rioja, Argentina (prov.))
Ríos Montt, Efraín
Riots
Rites and Ceremonies
Road Maps
Roads
Roberts, Orlando
Rock Art
Rock Paintings. (see Rock Art)
Rockshelters. (see Caves)
Rodents
Roldós Aguilera, Jaime
Romanticism
Romero, Matías
Romero, Oscar A.
Rondônia, Brazil (state)
Roraima, Brazil (territory)
Rosario, Argentina (city)
Routes of Travel
Rubber Industry and Trade
Rum Industry
Runa. (see Canelo)
Rural Development
Rural Development Projects. (see Development Projects)
Rural Education
Rural Health
Rural Sociology
Rural-Urban Migration
Russian Revolution (1917-1921)
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Sacha Runa Research Foundation (SRRF)
Sacred Space
Sacrifice
Sáenz, Moisés
Safety in the Workplace. (see Industrial Safety)
Sahagún, Bernardino de
Saint Augustine, Florida (city)
Saint-Barthélemy, Guadeloupe (island)
Saint Christopher-Nevis
Saint Croix, Virgin Islands
Saint John, Virgin Islands
Saint Martin (island)
Saint-Pierre, Martinique (town)
Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands
Saint Vincent (island)
Sajcabajá, Guatemala (city)
Salcedo, Ecuador (city)
Salesians
Salina Cruz, Mexico (city)
Salineros (indigenous group)
Salsa
Salt and Salt Industry
Salta, Argentina (city)
Salta, Argentina (prov.)
Saltillo, Mexico (city)
Salvador, Brazil (city)
Salvadorans
Salvage Archeology. (see Rescue Archeology)
Samana Cay (island)
Samba
San Agustín Archaeological Park (Colombia)
San Agustín, Colombia (city)
San Agustín Culture (Colombia)
San Andrés de Giles, Argentina (town)
San Andrés y Providencia, Colombia (intendancy)
San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala (town)
San Antonio Museum Association
San Carlos de Bolívar, Argentina (town)
San Cristóbal, Venezuela (city)
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico (city)
San Diego, California (city)
San Felipe, Chile (city)
San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago (city)
San Fernando de Montecristi, Dominican
Republic (city)
San Joaquín, Costa Rica (city)
San José, Costa Rica (city)
San José Tenango, Mexico (town)
San Juan, Argentina (city)
San Juan, Argentina (prov.)
San Juan, Puerto Rico (city)
San Juan de Yapacaní, Bolivia (town)
San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico (town)
San Luis, Argentina (prov.)
San Luis Potosí, Mexico (state)
San Martín de Porres, Peru (city)
San Martín, Peru (dept.)
San Mateo Etlatongo Site (Mexico)
San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala (city)
San Miguel River Region (Ecuador and Colombia)
San Pablo Cave (Mexico)
San Pedro, Belize (city)
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (city)
San Pedro Sula, Honduras (city)
San Rafael, Argentina (city)
San Salvador, Bahamas (island)
San Salvador, El Salvador (city)
San Sebastián Huáncito, Mexico (town)
Sánchez, Mario
Sandinistas (Nicaragua)
Sandino, Augusto César
Sanema. (see Yanoama)
Sangay Volcano (Ecuador)
Santa Ana, El Salvador (dept.)
Santa Barbara, Honduras (dept.)
Santa Catarina, Brazil (state)
Santa Cruz, Argentina (prov.)
Santa Cruz, Bolivia (city)
Santa Cruz, Bolivia (dept.)
Santa Cruz de Caña, Panama (city)
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (city)
Santa Elena Peninsula (Ecuador)
Santa Fe, Argentina (prov.)
Santa Leticia Site (El Salvador)
Santa María de la
Antigua del Darién, Colombia (city)
Santa Marta, Colombia (city)
Santa Marta, Colombia (prov.)
Santa Monica de la Barca, Mexico. (see La Barca)
Santa River Valley (Peru)
Santa Rosa de Ocopa, Peru (city)
Santander, Colombia (dept.)
Santander, Francisco de Paula
Santería (cult)
Santiago, Chile (city)
Santiago, Cuba (city)
Santiago, Guatemala (city)
Santiago de Veragua, Panama (city)
Santiago del Estero, Argentina (city)
Santiago del Estero, Argentina (prov.)
Santo Domingo de Olmos, Peru (city)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (city)
Santos, Panama. (see Los Santos, Panama (prov.))
Sanuma (indigenous group)
São Francisco River Valley (Brazil)
São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil (city)
São Paulo, Brazil (city)
São Paulo, Brazil (state)
São Raimundo Nonato, Brazil (city)
Saraloma, Ecuador (city)
Saramacca (Surinamese people)
Sarhua, Peru (city)
Sarney, José
Satellites
Saving and Investment (see also Public Investments; Foreign Investment)
Sayil Site (Mexico)
Scalabrinians
School Management and Organization
Schools
Science
Science Fiction
Scientific History [58]
Scientists
Scots
Screenplays
Sculptors
Sculpture
Seaga, Edward
Seasonal Labor
Secondary Education
Secoya (indigenous group)
Segregation
Seibal Site (Guatemala)
Seismology
Self-Determination. (see Autonomy; Sovereignty)
Semiotics
Sendero Luminoso (guerrilla group)
Seoane, Manuel
Separation. (see Divorce)
Serena, Chile. (see La Serena, Chile (city))
Sergipe, Brazil (state)
Seri (indigenous group)
Serialism (music)
Sericulture
Seridó, Brazil (city)
Services (economics)
Serviço de Proteção aos Indios (Brazil)
Sevilla, Spain (city)
Sewage Disposal
Sex and Sexual Relations
Sex Roles
Sexism
Shafik Handal, Jorge
Shamanism
Shantytowns. (see Squatter Settlements)
Shavante. (see Xavante)
Sheep
Shells and Shell Middens
Shining Path. (see Sendero Luminoso (Peru))
Shipbuilding
Shipibo. (see Sipibo)
Shipping
Shipwrecks
Shocó (indigenous group, Brazill)
Shoe Industry
Shoeshine Boys
Shokleng (indigenous group)
Shrimp Industry
Shuar (indigenous group)
Sibayo, Peru (city)
Sickle Cell Anemia
SIECA
Sign Language
Silva, Luís Inácio da. (see Lula)
Silver
Silversmiths
Silverwork
Simões, Mário F.
Sin Cabezas Site (Guatemala)
Sinaloa, Mexico (state)
Single Mothers
Sioni (indigenous group)
Sipibo (indigenous group)
Sistema Económico Latinoamericano (SELA)
Sistren Theatre Collective in Kingston, Jamaica
Slang
Slaves and Slavery
Slavs
Slums (see also Squatter Settlements)
Small Business
Smith, Samuel
Smuggling
Soap Operas
Social Change
Social Classes
Social Conditions
Social Conflict
Social Customs. (see Social Life and Customs)
Social Darwinism
Social Democracy [58]
Social Development
Social Discount Rate
Social History
Social Indicators
Social Justice
Social Life and Customs
Social Marginality
Social Mobility
Social Movements
Social Organization. (see Social Structure)
Social Policy
Social Prediction
Social Relations. (see Social Life and Customs)
Social Sciences
Social Security
Social Services
Social Structure
Social Welfare
Social Work
Social Workers
Socialism and Socialist Parties
Socialist International
Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología
Sociolinguistics
Sociology}
Soconusco, Mexico (region)
Soconusco, Mexico (town)
Soil Erosion
Soils
Soldiers
Somoza, Anastasio
Sonco, Peru (city)
Songs
Sonora, Mexico (state)
Sonqo, Peru. (see Sonco, (Peru))
Sonsonate, El Salvador (dept.)
Sorcery. (see Witchcraft)
Sorghum and Sorghum Industry
Sources
Southern Peru Copper Corporation
Sovereignty (see also Autonomy)
Soybeans
Spadafora, Hugo
Spaniards
Spanish-American War (1898)
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Spanish Conquest
Spanish Influences
Spanish Language
Spanish-Portuguese Boundary Treaty (1750)
Spiritualism
Sports
Squatter Settlements (see also Slums)
Squier, Robert J.
St. Elizabeth, Jamaica (city)
St. Joseph, Martinique (city)
Standard of Living. (see Cost and Standard of Living)
Stann Creek, Belize (city)
State, The
State-Building [58]
State Enterprises. (see Public Enterprises)
Statehood
States of Emergency. (see Martial Law)
Statesmen
Statistics
Steam Engines
Stedman, John Gabriel
Steel Industry and Trade
Stelae
Stimulants
Stock Exchanges
Stone Implements
Street Art
Street Children
Street-Railroads
Stress (psychology)
Strikes and Lockouts
Stroessner, Alfredo
Structural Adjustment
Student Movements
Students
Suazo Córdoba, Roberto
Subsistence Economy
Subversive Activities
Subways
Succession. (see also Inheritance and Succession)
Suchitepéquez, Guatemala (dept.)
Sucre, Bolivia (city)
Sucre, Venezuela (state)
Sudeste, Brazil (region)
Sugar Industry and Trade
Suicide
Sul, Brazil (region)
Sultepec, Mexico (mine)
Sumapaz, Colombia (region)
Summer Institute of Linguistics
Sumo (indigenous group)
Sumu. (see Sumo)
Superstition
Suriqui Island (Bolivia)
Surrealism (art)
Surrealism (literature)
Surui (indigenous group)
Sustainable Development
Suya (indigenous group)
Swedes
Swett Madge, Jorge
Swiss
Symbolism
Symbolism (art)
Symbolism (literature)
Synarchism
Syncretism
Syndicalism
Syntax
Syrians

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Tabasco, Mexico (state)
Táchira, Venezuela (state)
Tacna, Peru (dept.)
Tacuarembó, Uruguay (dept.)
Tafí River Valley (Argentina)
Taino (indigenous group)
Tairona (indigenous group)
Tajín Site (Mexico)
Taki Onqoy Movement (Peru)
Talca, Chile (city)
Talca, Chile (prov.)
Tallahassee, Florida (city)
Taller de Historia Oral Andina
Tamaulipas, Mexico (state)
Tambopata River Valley (Peru)
Tampico, Mexico (city)
Tandil, Argentina (city)
Tandil, Argentina (region)
Tango
Tantoyuca, Mexico (city)
Tapajó (indigenous group)
Tapuya (indigenous group)
Taquili, Peru (island)
Tarahumara (indigenous group)
Tarapacá, Chile (prov.)
Tarasco (indigenous group)
Tariffs
Tarija, Bolivia (city)
Tarija, Bolivia (dept.)
Tax Reform [59]
Taxation
Taxco, Mexico (town)
Tea Industry and Trade
Teachers
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance, Cuban
Technical Education
Technological Development
Technological Innovations
Technology
Technology Transfer
Teenagers
Tegucigalpa, Honduras (city)
Tehuacán River Valley (Mexico)
Tehuantepec, Mexico (region)
Tehuelche (indigenous group)
Teixeira, Anísio
Tejupa, Mexico (city)
Telecommunication
Telegraph
Television
Tellez, Dora María
Tembé (indigenous group)
Templo Mayor (Mexico City)
Ten Years' War (Cuba, 1868-1878)
Tenentismo (Brazil)
Tenochtitlán Site (Mexico)
Tenza Valley (Colombia)
Teotihuacán Site (Mexico)
Tepeaca, Mexico (town)
Tepecano (indigenous group)
Tepehuan (indigenous group)
Tepic, Mexico (town)
Teques, Venezuela. (see Los Teques, Venezuela (city))
Tequila Industry [58]
Terena (indigenous group)
Terena, Mariano Marcos
Tereno. (see Terena)
Terraba (indigenous group)
Terracing
Terremote Tlatenco Site (Mexico)
Territorial Waters
Terrorism
Texas, United States
Texas Revolution (1835-1836)
Textbooks
Textiles and Textile Industry
Theater
Theaters
Tiahuanaco Site. (see Tiwanaku Site (Bolivia))
Ticuna. (see Tucuna (indigenous group))
Tierradentro Site (Colombia)
Tierra del Fuego (region)
Tijuana, Mexico (city)
Tikal Site (Guatemala)
Tilarán, Costa Rica (city)
Time
Timucua (indigenous group)
Tin Industry
Tiriyo. (see Trio)
Tiwanaku Site (Bolivia)
Tlaltenco, Mexico (city)
Tlapacoya Sites (Mexico)
Tlatelolco, Mexico (zone)
Tlaxcala, Mexico (state)
Tlaxcalans (indigenous group)
Tlayacapan, Mexico (town)
Toba (indigenous group)
Tobacco Industry and Trade
Tobacco Use
Tobasco, Mexico (state)
Tojolabal (indigenous group)
Tolata, Bolivia (city)
Tolima, Colombia (dept.)
Toltecs (indigenous group)
Toluca, Mexico (city)
Toluca Valley (Mexico)
Tombs (see also Cemeteries; Mortuary Customs)
Tonadillas (see also Musicals; Zarzuelas)
Tonosi, Panama (dept.)
Tools
Torrijos Herrera, Omar
Tortuga Island (Haiti)
Torture
Totonac (indigenous group)
Tourism
Trade. (see Commerce)
Trade Policy
Trade Unions (see also Guilds)
Traditional Medicine
Translating and Interpreting
Transnational Corporations. (see Multinational Corporations)
Transportation
Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica
Travel
Travelers
Treaties
Trees
Trials
Trio (indigenous group)
Triple Alliance War. (see Paraguayan War)
Tristán, Flora
Trotskyism
Trujillo, Peru (city)
Trujillo, Peru (prov.)
Trujillo, Venezuela (state)
Tucano (indigenous group)
Tucanoan (indigenous group)
Tucma. (see Diaguita (indigenous group))
Tucumán, Argentina (city)
Tucumán, Argentina (prov.)
Tucuna (indigenous group)
Tukano. (see Tucano)
Tula, Mexico (city)
Tula Site (Mexico)
Tulcán, Ecuador (city)
Tulum Site (Mexico)
Tumaco, Colombia (city)
Tumaco La Tolita Sites (Colombia and Ecuador)
Tunebo (indigenous group)
Tungurahua, Ecuador (prov.)
Túpac Amaru, José Gabriel
Túpac Amaru, Peru (region)
Túpac Katari. (see Insurrection of Túpac Katari)
Tupamaros. (see Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (Uruguay))
Tupi (indigenous group)
Tupi-Guarani (indigenous group)
Tupinamba (indigenous group)
Tupinikin (indigenous group) (Brazil). (see Tupiniquin)
Tupiniquin (indigenous group)
Turaekare (indigenous group)
Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas
Turpo, Mariano
Tuxtlas Region (Mexico)
TV Martí (US)
Tzeltal (indigenous group)
Tzintzuntzan, Mexico (town)
Tzotzil (indigenous group)
Tzutuhil (indigenous group)

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Uanano. (see Guanano (indigenous group))
Uaxactún Site (Guatemala)
Ubataba, Brazil (town)
Ubate, Colombia (town)
Ucayali, Peru (dept.)
Uchuraccay, Peru (city)
Ujpán, Ignacio Bizarro. (see Bizarro Ujpán, Ignacio)
Ukrainians
Ulama
Ulva (indigenous group)
Umbanda
UN. (see United Nations)
UNAM. (see Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Underdevelopment (see also Development)
Underemployment (see also Unemployment)
Underground Press
Underwater Archaeology [Note: Spelling changed to Underwater Archeology beginning with v. 59]
Unemployment (see also Underemployment)
Unión Maquiritare del Alto Ventuari
Unión Nacional Opositora (Nicaragua)
United Brands Company. (see United Fruit Company)
United Fruit Company
United Indigenous Nations (UNI)
United Nations
United States.#Agency for International Development
United States.#Central Intelligence Agency
United States Information Agency
United States Virgin Islands. (see Virgin Islands)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Universities
University Extension
University Reform
UNO. (see Unión Nacional Opositora (Nicaragua))
Urarina (indigenous group)
Urban Areas
Urban Education
Urban History
Urban Parks
Urban Planning. (see City Planning)
Urban Policy
Urban Sociology
Urban Warfare
Urbanization
Uru (indigenous group)
Urubamba River (Peru)
Urubu (indigenous group)
Uruguayans
US Influences
Usumacinta River (Guatemala and Mexico)
Utopias
Uxmal Site (Mexico)

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Valdivia, Chile (prov.)
Valeriano, Antonio
Valle Central, Costa Rica (region)
Valle de La Cienága (Argentina)
Valle de México
Valle de Quíbor, Venezuela
Valle de Santiago, Mexico (region)
Valle del Cauca, Colombia (dept.)
Valparaíso, Chile (city)
Valparaíso, Chile (prov.)
Vanguardism
Vargas, Getúlio
Vasconcelos, José
Vatican [58] [ie., Vatican Palace (Vatican City)]
Vaupés, Colombia (dept.)
Vega Site (Ecuador)
Velasco Alvarado, Juan
Venezuelans
Vera Ordoñez de Villaquirán, Diego de
Veracruz, Mexico (city)
Veracruz, Mexico (state)
Veraguas, Panama (prov.)
Vernacular Architecture
Verticality
Vespucci, Amérigo
Viceroys
Viceroyalty of New Granada (1718-1810)
Viceroyalty of New Spain (1540-1821)
Viceroyalty of Peru (1542-1822)
Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata (1776-1810)
Vichada, Colombia (commissary)
Vicosinos (indigenous group)
Vicuña
Videocassettes
Viedma, Argentina (town)
Vieira, Antônio
Vilacabamba Site (Peru)
Vila Melos, Brazil (city)
Vilela (indigenous group)
Villa Alta, Mexico (municipality)
Villa de Cura, Venezuela (town)
Villa El Salvador, Peru (city)
Villages
Villahermosa, Mexico (city)
Villalobos, Joaquín
Villancicos
Villas, Cuba. (see Las Villas, Cuba (prov.))
Viña del Mar, Chile (city)
Vincentians
Violence
Violencia, La (Colombia)
Virgin Islands
Virginity. (see Sex and Sexual Relations)
Visitations (church work)
Vitória, Brazil (city)
Vocational Education
Voice of America
Volcanoes
Voodooism
Voting

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Wages
Waiwai (indigenous group)
Wakuénai. (see Curripaco (indigenous group))
Waldenses
Walker, William
Wamani (indigenous group)
Wambisa. (see Huambisa)
Wanka. (see Huanca)
Waorani. (see Huao)
War of the Pacific (1879-1884)
War of the Triple Alliance. (see Paraguayan War (1865-1870))
Warao. (see Warrau)
Warehouses
Warfare
Wari. (see Huari)
Warrau (indigenous group)
Wars of Independence (see also Independence Movements)
Water Conservation
Water Distribution
Water Rights
Water Supply
Waterways [59]
Waura (indigenous group)
Wayãpi. (see Oyampi)
Wayana. (see Oyana)
Wayu. (see Goajiro (indigenous group))
Wealth (see also Capital)
Weights and Measures
Welsh
West Indians
Whales
Wheat
White Collar Workers
Wildlife Refuges. (see Parks and Reserves)
Windward Islands
Wine and Wine Making
Wit and Humor
Witchcraft
Witoto (indigenous group)
Wiwilí, Nicaragua (town)
Women
Women in the Caribbean Project
Wood Carving
Wool Industry and Trade
Wood Sculpture
World Bank
World War I (1914-1918)
World War II (1939-1945)
Writing

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Xalitla, Mexico (city)
Xavante (indigenous group)
Xelha Site (Mexico)
Xenophobia
Xihuingo Site (Mexico)
Xochicalco Site (Mexico)

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Yaco River Valley (Peru)
Yagua (indigenous group)
Yahgan (indigenous group)
Yallahs River Valley (Jamaica)
Yaminahua. (see Jaminaua)
Yanaconas (indigenous group)
Yanoama (indigenous group)
Yanomami. (see Yanoama)
Yanque, Peru (city)
Yaqui (indigenous group)
Yaracuy, Venezuela (state)
Yaragala Volcano (Ecuador)
Yarumela Site (Honduras)
Yaxchilán Site (Mexico)
Yaxkukul, Mexico (city)
Yecuana (indigenous group)
Ye'kwana. (see Yecuana)
Youth
Yucatán, Mexico (state)
Yucatán Peninsula
Yucuna (indigenous group)
Yugoslavs
Yulá Site (Mexico)
Yungay, Peru (town)
Yuqui (indigenous group)
Yura. (see Yuracare)
Yura, Bolivia (city)
Yuracare (indigenous group)
Yurimagua (indigenous group)
Yurimaguas, Peru (town)
Yuruna (indigenous group)

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Zacatecas, Mexico (city)
Zacatecas, Mexico (state)
Zaculeu Site (Guatemala)
Zapotec (indigenous group)
Zárate Willka, Pablo
Zarzuelas (see also Tonadillas; Musicals)
Zé Espinho Site (Brazil)
Zelaya, Nicaragua (dept.)
Zinacantán, Mexico (town)
Zombies
Zoology
Zoque (indigenous group)
Zoró (indigenous group)
Zulia, Venezuela (state)

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