South American History

The Banana Wars: U.S. Military Interventions in Central America and the Caribbean
The term "Banana Wars" refers to a series of U.S. military interventions in Central America…
María Remedios del Valle: Afro-Argentine Heroine of Independence
María Remedios del Valle, an Afro-Argentine woman born in Buenos Aires around 1768, emerged as…
Atahualpa,
Last King of the Inca
Atahualpa was the last of the native lords of the mighty Inca Empire, which spanned…
The War of the Triple Alliance
The most devastating war ever fought in South America, the War of the Triple Alliance…
The Construction of the Panama Canal
The completion of the Panama Canal by Americans in 1914 marked the end of a…
The War of the Pacific
In 1879, Chile and Bolivia went to war after spending decades bickering over a border…
Treaty of Tordesillas
Many people do not know that when Christopher Columbus "discovered" the Americas, they already legally…
Operation Condor
In the mid-1970s, the governments of the southern cone of South America—Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay,…