Spain and Portugal divided almost all of South America between them, but in the 16th century the French also had commercial and colonial ambitions in Brazil. Robert Knecht tells the stories of two French expeditions that ended in disaster.
More than 900 people perished in the Jonestown mass suicide of November 18th 1978.
Anthony Aveni explains how the people planning great monuments and cities, many millennia and thousands of miles apart, so often sought the same inspiration – alignments with the heavens.
Meriel Larken takes the helm of the Yavari, a Victorian ship plying the highest navigable lake in the world.
Federico Guillermo Lorenz looks at Argentinian memories of the Second World War during and after the Malvinas-Falklands War of 1982.
Following his re-election in 1952, Juan Peron was overthrown on September 19th, 1955.
Leslie Ray argues that politics and football have always been inseparable in the land of the ‘hand of God’.
Peter H. Wilson revisits the War of the Triple Alliance, Latin America’s bloodiest conflict.
Ann Matear examines the continuing pursuit of justice after Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Federico Guillermo Lorenz shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.
