This course seeks to promote a debate of ideas about the different challenges posed in today’s Latin American society both political and economic. This content-based (CBI) Spanish course also aims to enhance and strengthen linguistics skills at the advanced level in Spanish in the three modes of communication- interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. The contents of this course will focus on authoritarian regimes in the 60s and 70s, the rise of democracy and populism, human rights and the work of NGOs, Human Trafficking, and the effects of COVID19 on the American continent.