Latin & South American

Top 10 Strangest Museums in South and Latin America

By Matt Dursum, in Art

How Did Brazil Win Independence From Portugal?

By Stewart Cattroll, in History

How African, Indigenous, and Catholic Beliefs Shaped Brazil

By Bianca Costi Farias, in History

The Life & Reign of Brazil’s First Emperor

By Stewart Cattroll, in History

The Revolutionary With an Irish Name That Shaped Chile

By Kristen Jancuk, in History

4 Lesser-Known Colonial Colombian Towns

By Max Serjeant, in History

The Difficult Legacy of the Spanish Inquisition in the Americas

By Marina Urdapilleta, in History

5 Latin American Counterrevolutions That Were Backed by the US

By Francisco Perpuli, in American History

3 Ancestral Farming Practices of Mexico That Are Making a Comeback

By Phil Jones, in History

How Liberation Theology Shook the Catholic Church in Latin America

By Francisco Perpuli, in History

The Mysterious Tiwanaku Civilization & the Ruins They Left Behind

By Max Serjeant, in History

Preserving Q’eqchi’ and Mopan, Endangered Mayan Languages

By Charlotte Austwick, in History

How the Spanish Spread Christianity in the Americas

By Juan Sebastián Gómez-García, in History

Quilombos, Colonial Brazil’s Escaped Slave Communities

By Marina Urdapilleta, in History

A Descent Through the Nine Levels of the Aztec Underworld

By Marina Urdapilleta, in History

Why Did the Second Mexican Empire Collapse?

By Stewart Cattroll, in History

4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Resisted Colonialism in Latin America

By Rowan Glass, in History

What Are the Mayan Codices?

By Juan Sebastián Gómez-García, in History

Magic and Sorcery in Colonial Latin America

By Alyssa Meekins, in History

The Incredible Finds From Caral-Supe, Americas’ Oldest Civilization

By Bianca Costi Farias, in Ancient History

How the Toltecs Influenced Mesoamerican History

By Alyssa Meekins, in History

Guns vs. Slingshots? The Indigenous Weaponry That Fought the Conquistadors

By Kristen Jancuk, in History

How Puerto Rico Went From a Conquistador’s Playground to US Territory

By Kristen Jancuk, in History

Puerto Rico’s Deadly Hurricane of 1899 Is Still Haunting the Island

By Kristen Jancuk, in History

10 Must-See Historic Sites in South America

By Laura Pattara, in History

Where Are Montezuma’s Aztec Descendants Now?

By Alyssa Meekins, in History

How Early Peoples of Latin America Interacted With Megafauna

By Alyssa Meekins, in Ancient History

The 8 Most Intriguing Nazca Lines

By Bianca Costi Farias, in History

The Inca Empire’s Four Quarters Explained (Government & Challenges)

By Robin Gillham, in History

4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History

By Liana Hakobyan, in History