Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Read here to learn how CLALS strives to be the "mecca" for those interested in addressing the most pressing problems in the region, and how the Center impacts Penn students. As CLALS Director Tulia Falleti states in the article, “We want to offer our students the history, the diplomacy, politics and economics, arts and letters, the cultural studies approach that we need to understand Latin America... and hopefully to work towards policy changes."