South America

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.

The soldier who liberated South America died on August 17th, 1850.

A fleet led by Pedro Álvares Cabral reached the Brazilian coast on April 22nd, 1500.

With Evita as its star, Juan Perón’s propaganda campaign won Argentina's affection for the populist dictatorship, at least for a while.

David Rock tells the story of the rise and fall of a late Victorian businessman and politician and the insights his career throws on nineteenth century Argentina.

What led middle-class students to join the urban guerrilla movement against the military regime in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s? Alzira Alves de Abreu reports on the evidence from interviews with those who survived.

John Geipel on how the enforced diaspora of the slave trade shaped South America’s largest nation.

Russell Chamberlin looks at the renaissance of Bolivia's Jesuit mission