Georges Remi (Herge)´s comic book adventures of Tintin appeared in 1924 and has been translated into more than fifty languages. The whole albums have been criticized because of their supposed conservative and xenofobic tendencies. The present article tries to study the representations of Latinamerica in four albums whose plots are held in this region. The analysis, based on the concept of estereotype, will appeal to methods taken from the analysis of visual texts framed in a semiotic and critical perspective