LibGuides: Latin American Studies: News & Newspapers

Newspapers from around the world

Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Current and historical news from the 1980s to current. News sources cover the culture and history of ethnic and minority issues, including minority and native press publications, in a variety of languages.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Up-to-date global news content with archives that stretch back into the 1980s. Sources include newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text form.
Global Newsstream provides collections of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Global Newsstream incorporates the U.S. Newsstream, Canadian Newsstream, and International Newsstream databases. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform.

DIRECT LINKS TO MAJOR NEWSPAPERS:

Historical Newspapers

Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press
From the University of Arizona. The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases 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.
Hermoteca National Digital De Mexico
Spanish Language digital archive of newspapers from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Some content is restricted to UNAM affiliates only.
Goole News Archive

Newspapers available in the Google News archive compiled by Michigan State University Libraries

Newspaper	Country and Number of Issues	Dates Available
Diario del Hogar	(MEXICO) 8,477 issues	Sep 16, 1881 - Nov 15, 1914
El Abogado Cristiano	(MEXICO) 1,047 issues	Aug 1, 1880 - Dec 26, 1929
El Alacran	(MEXICO) 34 issues	Sep 3, 1899 - May 19, 1900
El Asilo de Mendigos	(MEXICO) 38 issues	Jul 1, 1879 - Oct 31, 1889
El Bautista	(MEXICO) 127 issues	May 19, 1910 - Dec 26, 1912
El Correo del Comercio	(MEXICO) 1,374 issues	Sep 15, 1871 - Oct 12, 1876
El Correo Espanol	(MEXICO) 7,147 issues	Nov 9, 1889 - Dec 31, 1914
El Cronista Musical	34 issues	May 1, 1887 - Dec 25, 1887
El Cruzado	(MEXICO) 60 issues	Jul 22, 1893 - Sep 16, 1894
El Diario de Nueva York	(USA, New York) 248 issues	Jan 2, 1962 - Apr 29, 1963
El Diario la Prensa	(USA, New York) 689 issues	May 2, 1963 - Jun 21, 1968
El Monitor Republicano	(MEXICO) 469 issues	Jul 1, 1884 - Dec 31, 1885
El Nacional	(MEXICO) 3,784 issues	Apr 1, 1890 - Dec 31, 1918
El Pais	(MEXICO) 4,423 issues	Sep 26, 1900 - Aug 22, 1914
El Pajaro Verde	(MEXICO) 1,960 issues	May 13, 1865 - Dec 31, 1886
El Partido Liberal	(MEXICO) 2,777 issues	Nov 13, 1886 - Oct 15, 1896
El Siglo Diez Y Nueve	(MEXICO) 967 issues	Jun 25,1893 - Oct 15, 1896
El Tiempo	(COLOMBIA) 21,397 issues	Feb 2, 1911 - Mar 31, 2007
El Universal	(MEXICO) 5,194 issues	Nov 16, 1848 - Dec 7, 1901
Jornal do Brasil	(BRAZIL) 18,167 issues	Apr 8, 1891 - Dec 31, 1999
La Nacion	(COSTA RICA) 9,480 issues	Nov 13, 1945 - Dec 31, 1991
La Opinion	(USA, Los Angeles) 23,971 issues	Mar 8, 1891 - Sep 30, 2008
La Sociedad	(MEXICO) 1,915 issues	Dec 26, 1857 - Mar 31, 1867

Hemeroteca Digital "Fray Francisco de Paula Castañeda (Argentina: 1911-1979)
Digitized copies of three newspapers from the Province of Santa Fe. "El Orden" 1927 to 1955, "Santa Fe" 1911 to 1933, "El Litoral" from 1930 to 1979.
El Informador (Mexico, 1917-)
El Informador is an independent, daily newspaper published and headquartered in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
El Siglo de Torreon (Mexico: 1922-2000)
Daily paper for Durango and Coahulia, Mexico.

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Fact checking tools

Factcheck.org
A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Institute. A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. They monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Politifact
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. PolitiFact is run by editors and reporters from the Tampa Bay Times, an independent newspaper in Florida, as is PunditFact, a site devoted to fact-checking pundits. The Tampa Bay Times is owned by the not-for-profit Poynter Institute. The PolitiFact state sites are run by news organizations that have partnered with the Times. The state sites and PunditFact follow the same principles as the national site.
OpenScecrets.org
Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Our vision is for Americans, empowered by access to clear and unbiased information about money’s role in politics and policy, to use that knowledge to strengthen our democracy. Our mission is to produce and disseminate peerless data and analysis on money in politics to inform and engage Americans, champion transparency, and expose disproportionate or undue influence on public policy.
Interactive Media Bias Chart
Browse and search for popular media sources to see where they fall on the political left-right axis and reliability rankings.

American Newspapers

Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980) This link opens in a new window
A historical newspaper archive of Spanish, English, and bi-lingual newspapers printed in the U.S.

Historical Los Angeles Times
The full text of the LA Times from 1881-1989.
Los Angeles Times
The fulltext of the L A Times from 1986 to present.
New York Times (1851-2010)
The New York Times (1851-2010) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
California Newspaper Project
INDEX ONLY, NO FULL TEXT of Historic California newspapers. Its database allows researchers to narrow their contacts to institutions holding the relevant titles.
California Digital Newspaper Collection
A Freely Accessible Repository of Digitized California Newspapers from 1846 to the Present
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
American History
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Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (1800-1899) This link opens in a new window
A historical newspaper archive including images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 1800s U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement, and illustration.

Washington Post
For Historical Issues Use:
1987-1996 (Print Version Only)
1996- Present (Print Version Only)
For Current & Up to Date News Use:
2016- Present: The Post Online

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