The Progress of the Latin American Photonics Community - and a Brief Mention about Mechanical Nanoresonators

In this article, we will briefly review the history and progress of photonics in Latin America, describing the discipline's development over the years and its collaborations with the rest of the world's countries. Among the ten countries analyzed, we will focus mainly on the most developed players in the field, taking the three most significant in terms of scientific weight: Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, and the very interesting, more recent developments acquired by Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador. On the other hand, we will also shortly review the activities we have developed in Argentina in nanophotonics, specifically in mechanical nanoresonators.