The NACLA Archive of Latin Americana contains "ephemera and serials relating to socioeconomic and political conditions in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s." It contains "primary sources such as serials, reports, fliers, pamphlets, posters, manuscripts, and correspondence." The publications generally provide a left-wing ideological perspective covering progressive and human rights issues, but also includes documentation of the political right, the military governments, and the Church. See also separate entries by title.

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"The Archivo General de Centroamérica (Central American Archives) 1544-1821, in Guatemala, is the most comprehensive collection found anywhere in the world of historical records spanning the period of Spanish rule in the Americas. The holdings of the Archivo include myriad types of documents covering a host of cultural, legislative, judicial, fiscal, economic, religious, military, agricultural and commercial matters pertaining to the Kingdom of Guatemala, an area which, from the time of the Conquest in 1544 through 1821, embraced modern-day Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Mexican State of Chiapas."-- Publisher's website

CRL owns the complete set of microfilm, covering the following areas: 

• Guatemala, Superior Gobierno (central government) [reels 1A-1537A]
• Guatemala, economic [reels 1537A-1853A]
• Guatemala, economic, judicial & military [reels 1C-150C]

• Guatemala, Real Hacienda (treasury) [reels 1854A-2532A]
• Yucatan [reels 1B-3B]
• Chiapas [reels 3B-199B]
• El Salvador [reels 200B-577B]
• Honduras [reels 577B-878B]
• Nicaragua [reels 878B-1173B, 1175B-1187B, 1189B-1212B]
• Costa Rica [reels 1212B-1241B]

CRL owns the following sets from this series:

• Confidential U.S. diplomatic post records. Central America. El Salvador, 1930-1945 [Catalog Record]
• Confidential U.S. diplomatic post records. Central America. Nicaragua, 1930-1945 [Catalog Record]
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Argentina, 1955-1959  [Catalog Record]
• Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Mexico, February 1963-1966. Part 1, Political, governmental, and national defense affairs [Catalog Record]

This set (contained in three parts) inclodes the complete Foreign Office files for Cuba covering 1959-1962. The documents offer new perspectives on issues relating to the revolution in Cuba from the ending of the Batista regime through the Cuban Missle Crisis. Each set also cataloged separately.

Part 1: Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1960 [catalog link]
(PRO Classes FO 371/139396-139521, 148178-148345 & PREM 11/2622)

Part 2: Cuba and the Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961 [catalog link]
(PRO Classes FO 371/156137-156255 & PREM 11/3316, 3321 & 3328)

Part 3: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 [catalog link]
(PRO Classes FO371/162308-162436, 168135 & PREM 11/3689-3691)

This collection features expedition records, original letters and maps of exploration and colonization, and "diaries of discoveries" from South America, from narratives of Columbus' first voyage (at Sloane Ms 1709) to the end of Colonial Spanish rule. The set covers European exploitation, evangelization, and botanical and geographical exploration in South America from Texas to Tierra del Fuego, and features maps, scrolls, descriptions of voyages by sea and river, terrain, flora and fauna, settlement posts, plantations and mines, missionary activities, and "diaries of discoveries."

Territories represented include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Florida, Guatemala, Guiana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Patagonia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela and the West Indies.

Consular reports, part of the Records in the National Archives designated as Record Group 59, "General Records of the Department of State." For Mexico, CRL holds the following NARA sets:

• Despatches from United States consuls in Acapulco, 1823-1906 (partial holdings)  
• Despatches from United States consuls in Campeche, 1820-1880  
• Despatches from United States consuls in Chihuahua, 1830-1906 
• Despatches from United States consuls in Ciudad Juárez (Paso del Norte), 1850-1906  
• Despatches from United States consuls in Durango, 1886-1906  
• Despatches from United States consuls in Guaymas, 1832-1896  
• Despatches from United States consuls in Hermosillo, 1905-1906  
• Despatches from United States consuls in La Paz, Mexico, 1855-1906  
• Despatches from United States consuls in Manzanillo, Mexico, 1855-1906  
• Despatches from United States consuls in Matamoros, 1826-1906  
• Despatches from United States consuls in Mazatlan, 1826-1906  
• Despatches from United States consuls in Merida, 1843-1897 and Progreso, 1897-1906
• Despatches from United States consuls in Mexico City, Mexico, 1822-1906
• Despatches from United States consuls in Monterrey, Mexico, 1849-1906 
• Despatches from United States consuls in Nogales, 1889-1906 
• Despatches from United States consular officials in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 1871-1906
• Despatches from United States consuls in Piedras Negras, 1868-1906 
• Despatches from United States Consuls in Saltillo, 1876-1906 
• Despatches from United States consuls in San Blas, 1837-1892 
• Despatches from the United States Consul in San Dimas, 1871-1873
• Despatches from United States consuls in Santa Fe, 1830-1846 
• Despatches from United States consuls in Tampico, 1824-1906 (partial holdings)
• Despatches from United States consuls in Veracruz, 1822-1906 (partial holdings)

The University of Texas Libraries’ Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection preserved 579 Mexican newspaper titles which date from 1807 to 1900. These newspapers "trace the evolution of the modern newspaper format in Mexico through its often turbulent history: from its status as a viceroyalty of the Spanish Crown to its early experiment in a monarchical form of government to its long struggle to determine a federalist system of government, with concomitant religious, social, and economic changes."

The set includes titles published within the Distrito Federal as well as cities from twenty-six states. The majority were published in Mexico City. Titles cataloged separately. 

CRL owns Segment 3 of this international series, covering census publications from (generally) 1990--2000 for:

• Brazil
• Chile
• Costa Rica
• Dominican Republic
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Saint Lucia