In this issue I present the 1st Latin American Theoretical Informatics School and the call for papers of Latincrypt 2012. At the end I present a list of the main events in Theoretical Computer Science to be held in Latin America in the following months. 1st Latin American Theoretical Informatics School This will be a first of, what will hopefully be, a series of Schools on topics related to Theoretical Computer Science which are expected to take place in conjunction with the Latin American

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... etical Computer Science Symposium (LATIN). In particular, the first version of the School will be co-located and run in parallel to LATIN2012 on April 16 -20 at Arequipa, Perú. The School's objectives are to encourage attendance of Latin American students to the LATIN Symposium, to expose them to recent research developments, to give them the opportunity of learning recently developed advanced topics, and to facilitate their interaction with researchers working in and outside Latin America. The target audience are graduate students and advanced undergraduate students, in particular those studying in Latin America. The scheduled courses are