The Biblioteca Básica Latino-Americana was originally conceived by Darcy Ribeiro during his years of exile in the 1960s-1970s. The proposal of the collection is thus to promote reflection on Latin American thought, presented in a comprehensive way, through essays and texts by important artists and thinkers. Darcy Ribeiro was the Brazilian thinker who most deeply immersed himself in the reflection and proposition about Latin America, always in the original and interventive way that marked all his political and intellectual performance.