Arranged by country, it covers Spanish America and the Caribbean. Includes author, title, name and geographical indexes. The KU Libraries receive a number of newspapers from Latin America and the Caribbean that are available in the Periodicals Reading Room. Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. News reports are synthesized from regional and international sources, mostly from newspaper reports and journal articles.
Subjects covered include politics, economics, human rights, environment, drugs and military.
Articles appear in English only. Dates from 1986 and is updated quarterly. LADB also contains a full-text database of selected Latin American economic publications. The database, called the Economies of Latin America Archive , includes serials, reports, and working papers produced by governmental agencies, academic research institutes, and non-governmental organizations in approximately twenty countries in Latin America. Most articles are in Spanish.