LibGuides: Latin American & Caribbean Studies: News & Newspapers

Databases with Archives & Full Text of Newspapers

Recent/Current Newspapers

Alternative Press Index Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals that cover the period of 1969 through 1990.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from over 300 ethnic and minority newspapers, journals and magazines. Coverage 1959 to present.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
A great source for newspapers but with a complicated search. Contains thousands of foreign newspapers including Latin American sources.
Text and data mining (TDM) of Factiva content is prohibited by license. TDM includes mass downloading of content via scripts (aka scraping) *and* via Factiva's internal tools for downloading content. Please use ProQuest's TDM Studio for text mining.
Latin American Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of articles major Latin American newspapers and major international newswires
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Use the "Search the News" section & select the "Source Type" from the dropdown menu. Contains thousands of foreign newspapers including Latin American sources.

NewsCAT
Links to over 1000 full-text paper titles with a goal to link to as many US and Caribbean papers with archival digital content as possible.

World News Connection This link opens in a new window
Translated selected articles (2003-) from non-United States media sources covering political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events. Has a Latin American and Caribbean Section. Check dates of coverage carefully.

Historical Newspapers

Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876 This link opens in a new window
Contains 66 newspaper titles from 22 islands from the American Antiquarian Society

dLOC - Digital Library of the Caribbean
A growing full text archival project with newspapers from Caribbean countries.
Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
Contains historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s

Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980) This link opens in a new window
Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers (Global Press Archive) This link opens in a new window
Search across a collection of newspapers tracing the evolution of Mexico during the independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929). This is an open access database.

Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections
A database of newspapers prepared by U.Massachusetts Dartmouth Library.
Publicaciones Periódicas del Uruguay
Full-text of 19th and 20th century newspapers and journals published in Uruguay. Navigate to Presentación and use the Índice de títulos to navigate to information about each publication and links to full text.

World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new window
Latin America - A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. An extensive Latin American collection is included.

Portion of the collection of Chilean newspapers at the Sistema de Bibliotecas de la Universidad de Concepción, 2012

The Center for Research Libraries

Duke University Libraries is a member of the Center for Research Libraries and members of the Duke Community may request microfilm of newspapers from CRL via our Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery service. CRL has extensive holdings of foreign newspapers. Search their catalog below.

Center for Research Libraries Newspapers
Scholars and researchers from CRL member institutions have free and unlimited use of the CRL collections through inter library loan.

Lists of Latin American & Caribbean Newspapers with Links to Homepage or Library Catalog

International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) - Contains information on newspapers published outside of the United States. It includes bibliographic descriptions of titles and information on institutional holdings.
Newspapers in Latin America - LANIC A listing of newspapers by country with links to their homepages.