South America

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

Latin America conjures up images of constant political turmoil, powered by endless revolutions. But this is misleading.

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

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

Ralegh's fateful attempt to discover El Dorado began on March 17th, 1617.

A major conflict in the Chilean War of Independence was fought on 12 February 1817.

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.

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

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.

In a continent dedicated to republicanism, writes George Woodcock, the Braganza dynasty for eighty years guided the destinies of Brazil.