South & Central America

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Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.
The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America
General Sandino and Staff standing near a car
The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution
Scene from the 1975 Conference on Women. Interior of a large auditorium. Panel of people are sitting on a stage. The conference logo of a women's symbol and bird are above the stage.
The World Conference on Women: 1975 Mexico City
Someone's hand holding a paper strip up to a Guatemalan woman's arm. The woman's arm has a white strip on it.
The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
The new Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, which opened in February 2023, was built to detain thousands suspected gang members.
Marching Back to the Past: Militarism in El Salvador
battle at Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel, Jean Donovan, and Maura Clarke
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
Photograph of Augusto César Sandino, taken between 1927 and 1934
The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution
cars on a highway
Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol
Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.
Episodes of Ambivalent Empire
Students in Mexico protest the PRI in 1968 with a sign that reads "Mexico '68: The Year of Repression."
Counterinsurgency and Drugs in Cold War Thailand and Mexico (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 5)
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
U.S. Marines play baseball in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History
President Carter shakes hands with General Torrijos of Panama after signing the Panama Canal Treaty
The Missing "Third" of the Third World
Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, two of the murdered women of El Salvador
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
Port of Buenos Aires
Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19
President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and the Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.
Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism
Bird on rock outcrop in Galapagos Islands
What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?
Florynce Rae Kennedy (center), a U.S. black feminist protesting outside The International Women’s Year Tribune (UN Photo by B. Lane).
The 1975 Mexico City World Conference on Women
Palais de Beaulieu
The Theological Third Way in Latin America
Rainforest scars from illegal mining and deforestation.
The Amazon Rainforest under Threat
One of Havana's plazas without a church.
A Postcard From Havana, Cuba
Andrés Manuel López Obrador in front of Mexican flag
"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation
Bartolome de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice