Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

As a teenager, Juana entered the court ofViceroy Marquis de Mancera She’s commonly extolled as Latin America’s first......

Manuela Sáenz

Remembered primarily as the lover of Simón Bolívar, celebrated leader of South America's crusade for independence, Manuela......

Gabriela Mistral

Poetess Gabriela Mistral was Latin America’s first (and thus far only) woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature. Born......

Las Hermanas Mirabal/The Mirabal Sisters

(L to R: Patricia, Marie-Teresa, and Minerva)Las Hermanas Mirabal-Patria (b. February 27, 1924), Dedé (b. March 1,......

National Hispanic Heritage Month

Confession time; caught-up in graduate school applications, I neglected to remember September 15th-October 15th was National......