This collection of pamphlets, serials, broadsides, fliers, and posters covers a broad range of countries and topics. It includes government reports, conference or working papers, research center working papers, literary magazines and journals, political campaign documents, election results, statistical studies, legal documents, newspapers, speeches, publications of human rights organizations, labor union tracts, and mission statements of religious groups.

The archive is organized by country with ten major topical groups: Politics; Government; Socioeconomic Conditions;  Agiculture; Constitutions, laws, and codes; Human and civil rights; Racial groups; Women and gender issues; Culture; and Church and religion. 

Countries best represented are Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Cuba. Most of the titles have been individually cataloged.