Latin America comprises more than twenty million square kilometers with an estimated population of 667 million inhabitants. Due to its extension, Latin America presents a great complexity that repeatedly falls into oversimplification, cliches and misconceptions. This seminar aims to offer a comprehensive analysis of the region in order to provide students with a better understanding of its economic, institutional, social and cultural background and its current situation in the 21st century. To deepen the knowledge about the different dynamics of cooperation and conflict, of its successes and failures, will allow myths to be dismantled and its potential to be explored, becoming a revealing opportunity for students of different disciplines and interests. This seminar will not only provide the students with a unique insight on the Latin American context and its possibilities, but it will also train them in information gathering and analysis, and will furnish future graduates with a basic framework for the preparation of similar reports and presentations.