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The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...
Foreign Affairs

Latin America’s Revolution of the Right

From virtually the moment he and his band of bearded rebels rode into Havana in 1959 until his death from natural causes in 2016, the most iconic leader in Latin America was Fidel Castro. With his ...
NPR

Venezuela is the latest in the U.S.'s long history of interventions in Latin America

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Eduardo Gamarra, professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University, about the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America. The U.S.
insider.si.edu

Exploitation, inequality, and resistance : a history of Latin America since Columbus / Mark A. Burkholder, Monica Rankin, Lyman L. Johnson

The Eve of Atlantic Empires. Iberia ; Indigenous societies in "the Indies" ; Africa and the early slave trade -- Exploration, Columbus, and Early Settlement. An Age of Exploration ; The Caribbean ...
The Atlantic

A New History of the Western Hemisphere

Imagine a couple of bros recording a video podcast in which they get together to swap compliments while casually chatting about vaporizing due process. This is roughly what it felt like to tune in to ...