Resource Guide:
Latin American Politics

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Digital Archive of the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive
• Latin American Government Documents Archive
• Castro Speech Database
• Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
• Hoover Institute Latin America
• Organization of American States

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Latin America--Politics and government.
• Latin America--Politics and government--1948-1980.
• Latin America--Politics and government--21st century.
• Organization of American States
• Anti-imperialist movements.
• Despotism--Peru.
• Monroe Doctrine.
• Nicaragua--Politics and government--20th century.
• Communism--Latin America.
• Democracy--Latin America.

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Fuente Académica
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Military & Government Collection

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Latin American politics and society
• Journal of Politics in Latin America
• Latin American Perspectives: A Journal on Capitalism and Socialism
• Latin American Policy
• Latin American Perspectives

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.