Images used on the home page

Tolima ornament in the form of a human-headed bird, from Colombia (gold), Pre-Columbian / Museo del Oro, Bogotá, Colombia, Lauros / Giraudon / Bridgeman Art Library

Nobel prize winner, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, poses by his house in Cartagena, Colombia.

Moche stirrup vase in the shape of a man wearing a deerskin (terracotta), Pre-Columbian / British Museum, London, UK / Bridgeman Art Library

The First Landing of Christopher Columbus (1450-1506) in America, 1862 (oil on canvas), Puebla Tolín, Dióscoro Teófilo de la (1832-1901) / Ayuntamiento de La Coruña, Spain / Bridgeman Art Library

Virgin and Child (oil on canvas), Cuzco School, (19th century) / Museo de Arte, Lima, Peru / Bridgeman Art Library

Cross-legged figure holding a baby, Olmec (stone), Pre-Columbian / Museo de Antropología, Jalapa, Mexico / Bridgeman Art Library

Colossal head, Olmec (stone), Pre-Columbian / Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico / Bridgeman Art Library

Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) (oil on canvas), Michelena, Arturo (1868-98) / Bolívar Museum, Caracas, Venezuela, Giraudon / Bridgeman Art Library

Queen and her Suite, detail depicting dancers and musicians (w/c on paper), Juliao, Carlos (18th century) / Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Bridgeman Art Library

Woollen fabric (textile), Paracas Culture / Museo del Oro, Lima, Peru, Giraudon / Bridgeman Art Library

Cylindrical vase, Mayan, 7th-8th century (polychrome stone), Pre-Columbian / Museo Arqueológico-Sylvanus G. Morley, Tikal, Guatemala, Giraudon / Bridgeman Art Library

Teotezcacuitiapili, belt buckle worn by dignitaries depicting the four fire serpents, from El Castillo, Chitchen Itza, Yucatan State, 987-1185 (mosaic), Pre-Columbian / Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico / Bridgeman Art Library

Don José Cecilio del Valle (1777-1834) (oil on canvas), Guatemalan School, (19th century) / Museo Nacional de Historia, Guatemala City, Central America, Giraudon / Bridgeman Art Library

Two Chimu vases with mythological figures and a small female Mochica idol (embossed gold and turquoise), Pre-Columbian / Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima, Peru / Bridgeman Art Library

Family group, rural Cusco, Peru.

Market day, Chinchero, Peru.

Miners, Cerro Rico, Potosí, Bolivia.

Winner of Best Salsa Album for La Negra Tiene Tumbao, Celia Cruz at The 3rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Sept. 18, 2002.

Guido Cedillo is arrested for trespass during a protest against the renewal of U.S. navy bombing exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, June 19, 2001.

Popocatepetl, an 18,000 foot volcano 40 miles to the south of Mexico City.

Sandinista rebel outside the Palacio Nacional, Managua, Nicaragua, July, 1979.

Guanacos, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.

Laura Esquivel, author of "Like Water For Chocolate," poses for a portrait at her home September 30, 1992 in Mexico City, Mexico.

César Chávez, president of the United Farm Workers of America, during a visit to Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., April 14, 1993.

Environmentalists and members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union protest against a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel ruling, El Paso, Texas, 16 Feb 2001.

Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, accompanied by Andean musicians called Pututus, during a ceremony at Machu Picchu, Peru, July 29, 2001.

Spanish Prince of Asturias Felipe de Borbón, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian First Lady Eliane Carp, and Costa Rica's President Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, his wife, and Israeli Foreign Minister Simon Perez pose for a photograph July 29, 2001 at Machu Picchu, Peru.

Latin American leaders attending the XVII Rio Group summit May 23, 2003 in Cuzco, Peru.

Former president of Nicaragua and leader of the Sandinista movement Daniel Ortega, circa 1990.

Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) leader of the agrarian rebels in Southern Mexico.