South American History

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,…