Latin American Studies Resource Guide

Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, born in Aracataca.

Argentine poet, critic, and short-story writer, b. Buenos Aires.

Chilean poet, diplomat, and Communist leader.

Poet, born in Mexico City, Mexico.

Mexican artist. Self-taught after a crippling accident at the age of 15 which left her in agonizing pain for life.

Mexican mural painter, studied as a youth with Posada and other Mexican painters; husband of Frida Kahlo.

Member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.

Member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.

Among the more important Romance languages are Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Occitan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, and Spanish. The spread of some Romance languages to other parts of the world, especially the Western Hemisphere, accompanied the colonizing and empire-building of the mother countries of these languages, notably Spain, Portugal, and France.

Member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.