The completion of the Panama Canal by Americans in 1914 marked the end of a…
In 1944, the Mexican Air Force was offered an opportunity to fight in World War…
In 1879, Chile and Bolivia went to war after spending decades bickering over a border…
Many people do not know that when Christopher Columbus "discovered" the Americas, they already legally…
Hispanic and Latino are often used interchangeably though they actually mean two different things. Hispanic…
Latin America is a region of the world that spans two continents, North America (including Central…
Hernán Cortés (1485–December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador responsible for the audacious, brutal conquest…
Francisco Pizarro (1471–1541) was a Spanish conquistador whose famed conquest of the Inca Empire in the 1530s…
In the mid-1970s, the governments of the southern cone of South America—Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay,…
When Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl and a ragged band of followers attacked the barracks…
