Casa de las Américas is a literary research center located in El Venado, Cuba. It is a non-governmental institution with legal personality, which develops and expands relations with the socio-cultural peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean and elsewhere. Since its foundation in 1959 and to date it has been considered one of the most prestigious institutions of the Spanish language and with longer life on the Continent.

Holding a clear integrative and Latin-American vision, the center, has maintained and strengthened intellectual and cultural ties between the island and the rest of the continent.

Through the journal Casa de las Americas Promotes and supports research, development and dissemination of art and literature. The journal is defined as a publication of letters and ideas, in which the most prominent intellectuals collaborate addressing the issues of Latin America and the Caribbean. Also young people who start in the creation, research and literary thought collaborate in the publications.

With a current circulation of three thousand copies, it is published quarterly but intends to return to the bimonthly frequency with which was born.

LatAm-Studies Full Text includes every issue published since the inception of the journal in 1960.