South America

The Inca’s Last Stand

An Indigenous rebellion in colonial Argentina foreshadowed later risings – and resonates to this day.

A New Peru

The rise and fall of José Luis Bustamante’s left-wing presidency.

Fire and Faith

The coverage of a disaster in Chile revealed religious divisions among the world’s press.

The Origins of Rio de Janeiro

The teeming metropolis was once an undeveloped natural bay which became the site of a battle between Portugal and France for control of the New World.

The British in Argentina

Cyril Hamshere describes how the British community in Argentina came to be, at one point, the largest outside the Empire.

The O'Higgins of Chile

In certain parts of Spanish America today O’Higgins is a name still remembered and honoured to an extent that would surprise the great majority of Irishmen who have never heard of the once famous Viceroy of Peru or of his son, the founder of Chilean independence.