South America

Ramona Wadi reports on the continuing struggle to shed light on the death in 1973 of the Chilean singer and political activist Victor Jara.

Patrick Bishop’s first assignment as a foreign correspondent was to accompany the British task force sent to the South Atlantic to reclaim the Falkland Islands in April 1982. Thirty years on, he recalls his experience.

Thirty years after the Falklands War the bitter debate over the South Atlantic islands remains clouded in historical ignorance, argues Klaus Dodds

Robin Whitlock asks if studies of the decline of societies such as that of Easter Island can shed light on contemporary concerns.

José de San Martín and his forces liberated Peru and proclaimed its independence from Spain on 28 July 1821. 

What role did Simon Bolivar play in the history of Latin America's independence from Spain?

Hiram Bingham re-discovered the 'lost' city of the Incas on 24 July 1911.

Brazil may be one of the 21st century’s emerging superpowers, but its independence from Portugal was not inevitable, nor was its survival certain.

Eichmann was captured in Argentina on May 11th, 1960.

Britain's connections with Chile date from her War of Independence, and were powerfully re-inforced by a Victorian company-promoter in the City of London.