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Chile Introduction Geography People Government Economy Communications Transportation Military Transnational Issues Print This Frame Chile Introduction Top of Page Background: A three-year-old Marxist government was overthrown in 1973 by a dictatorial military regime led by Augusto PINOCHET, which ruled until a freely elected president was installed in 1990. Sound economic policies, first ...

The Vanished Gallery: Information about the thousands of disappeared persons in Argentina, during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, Secret Detention centers, Tortured and Murdered people, Junta Members, Cited Repressors, the 1982 Falklands War, and more ...

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CHILE - A Country Study Search Chile Include word variants Use only words as entered. CHILE Foreword Acknowledgements PREFACE Table A. Chronology of Important Events Country Profile COUNTRY GEOGRAPHY SOCIETY ECONOMY TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS NATIONAL SECURITY INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Historical Setting PRECOLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS CONQUEST AND COLONIZATION, ...

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BOLIVIA - A Country Study Search Bolivia Include word variants Use only words as entered. BOLIVIA Foreword Acknowledgments Preface COUNTRY PROFILE COUNTRY GEOGRAPHY SOCIETY ECONOMY TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS NATIONAL SECURITY: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Historical Setting PRE-COLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS CONQUEST AND COLONIAL RULE, 1532-1809 Conquest and Settlement The ...

French Guiana (overseas department of France) Introduction Geography People Government Economy Communications Transportation Military Transnational Issues Print This Frame French Guiana Introduction Top of Page Background: First settled by the French in 1604, French Guiana was the site of notorious penal settlements until 1951. The European Space Agency launches its communication satellites from ...

The Conquistadors is a four-part series airing on PBS in Spring 2001. The Conquistadors website explores the adventures of Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Fracisco de Orellana and Cabeza de Vaca in the New World as Michael Wood retraces their journeys in modern-day South America and the southern United States. ...

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Gaze on the hauntingly fragile Inca mummy as scientists atop Mount Ampato in Peru literally stumble onto the find of a career. ...

URUGUAY - A Country Study Search Uruguay Include word variants Use only words as entered. URUGUAY Foreword Acknowledgments Preface Country Profile COUNTRY GEOGRAPHY SOCIETY ECONOMY TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS NATIONAL SECURITY INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Historical Setting FROM PRE-COLUMBIAN TIMES TO THE CONQUEST THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE, 1811-30 Artigas's ...

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This page is part of FOTW Flags Of The World website Peru Last modified: 2000-02-16 by antonio martins Keywords: peru | muchik | Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors by Ant nio Martins, 14 Jul 1999 Other peruvian flags See also: Governmental and Military Flags of Peru History of the Peruvian Flag Subnational flags Native peoples flags Peruvian ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618): The Discovery of Guiana, 1595 Introductory Note Sir Walter Raleigh may be taken as the great typical figure of the age of Elizabeth. Courtier and statesman, soldier and sailor, scientist and man of letters, he engaged in almost all the main lines of public activity in his time, and was distinguished in ...

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Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Henry C Lea (1829-1909): The Inquisition in 17th-Century Peru: Cases of Portuguese Judaizers The most serious business of the tribunal, in the line of its proper functions, was with the apostasy of the Jewish New Christians. From the very foundation of the colonies . . . restrictions were laid on the emigration of Conversos and a law ...

Chinese in Guyana: Their Roots Welcome This website has migrated to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~guycigtr Please come on over. ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Pedro de Cieza de Leon: Chronicles of the Incas, 1540 Another view of the Incas, from a conquistador. It provides quite a lot of information about the Incan economy--a redistributive typical of all early civilizations. It is told for a fact of the rulers of this kingdom that in the days of their rule they had their representatives in ...

Huaca de la luna Trujillo - Peru, Una muestra de la cultura Moche, Folleto editado por GenesYs Graphics para el proyecto Huaca de la luna ENGLISH ...

A history of the first forty years of Inca-Spanish contact, from the execution of Atahuallpa to the beheading of Tupac Amaru.

An Inka accounting system that used knotted strings called quipus to record numerical data has long been known to scholars.

An essay assessing the significance of Chav n de Huantar, an Early Horizon archaeological site in the Central Andes.

A Journey into the Past The Beginning: When the colonizers came to the South In 1502, there was the first encounter of the Spaniards with the lands which would later become the Argentine territory. Twenty five years later, the first Spanish settlement took place, which was finally dismantled by the Indians. From then on, there was a succession of different governors and settlements, all of them ...

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PERUVIAN MILITARY AND NAVAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE 19th CENTURY This page is about historical military campaigns held during the 19th century by the Army and the Navy of the Republic of Peru. Here you will find detailed information about those campaigns, from the Battle of Junin in 1824 to the War of the Pacific between 1879 to 1883. Among the Latin American nations, Peru has been the country that has ...

Central and South America Foraging Societies: 12, 000 to 3, 000 BC 12, 000 to 8, 000 BC: Ice Age Foraging Peoples 8, 000 to 6, 000 BC: Early Archaic Period 6, 000 to 3, 000 BC: Middle Archaic Period Settled Agriculture: 5, 000 BC 5000 BC: Agriculture begins in Mexico. Early Ceremonial Centers: 2, 000 BC to 700 BC 2000 BC: Development of the first Peruvian ceremonial centers. 1500 BC: Beginnings of Olmec ...

Marxism, Mariategui and the Feminist Movement I. THE WOMAN QUESTION AND MARXISM The woman question is an important question for the popular struggle and its importance is greater today because actions are intensifying which tend to mobilize women; a necessary and fruitful mobilization from the working class viewpoint and in the service of the masses of the people, but which promoted by and for ...

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SOUTH AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS: THE MOCHE AND INCA A Segment of the Central & South American WWW Research Institute at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Director: Elizabeth Rozsa, RSC, Economics Major Contemporary Map of South America INTRODUCTION THE MOCHE THE INCA MACHU PICCHU THE FALL OF THE INCA INTRODUCTION When Pizarro and the Spaniards arrived in the Andes in the 16th century, they ...

Introduction Perhaps more so than any other place in the world, the fauna of the Galapagos are unique. Charles Darwin's observations of these unique animals, their remarkable adaption to a hostile environment, and the subtle variations between races of the same species living on different islands led directly to his theory of natural selection. The theory explains how the vast multitude of ...

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Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Juan Domingo Per n (1895-1974): Justicialism Juan Domingo Per n is among the most contentious figures in the modern political history of South America. On the one hand, many commentators are prepared to argue that he was a fascist, but others see in Per nism, which long retained the support of the Argentine working class, real elements ...

22 - The Railways of the Andes Climbing Though the Clouds in South America No railway journey in the world could present more astonishing contrasts than that which takes the traveler across the South American continent from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso. For hundreds of miles over the rolling pampas of Argentina not a single hill is seen - nothing but waving grain and luxuriant pasture as far as ...

Dedicated to the memory of Coronel Domingo A. Mercante. A brief narrative describing the life and times of Coronel Domingo A. Mercante.

History of Chile The first European to visit what is now Chile was the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who landed at Chiloe Island following his voyage, in 1520, through the strait that now bears his name. The region was then known to its native population as Tchili, a Native American word meaning snow. At the same time of Magellan's visit, most of Chile south of the Rapel River was ...

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The Labour Movement Evolution, Intervention, Stagnation, Transition: Guyana Clark University Graduate School of Management International Labour Relations Professor Gary N. Chaison Tarique I. Nageer Spring 1998 Background The Cooperative Republic of Guyana is located on the northeastern coast of South America. Its neighbors are Venezuela to the west, Brazil to the south, Suriname to the east, and ...

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Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Lope de Aguirre: Letter from to King Philip of Spain, 1561 The following translation is by Tom Holloway, History, Cornell University, from the version published in A. Arellano Moreno (org.), Documentos para la Historia economic de Venezuela, (Caracas: Univ. Central, 1961). Letter from Lope de Aguirre, rebel, to King Philip of Spain, ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Francisco Bilbao (1823-1865): from America in Danger, 1862 There is a tendancy to make unfavorable comparison between the beneficial political development of the United States and Canada towards political stability, and the extreme instability of 19th and 20th-century Latin American politics. It is, however, arguable that the value of ...

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History The Spanish conquest of Chile began in 1536-37, when forces under Diego de Almagro, invaded the region as far south as the Maule River. Finding neither a high civilization nor gold, the Spaniards decided to return to Peru. The discouraging reports brought back by Almagro's men forestalled further attempts at conquest until 1540-41, when Pizarro granted Pedro de Valdivia a license to ...

Benjamin Morell made two visits to the Galapagos, one in 1823 and a second in 1825. On the second trip he was captain of the schooner Tartar, seeking new sealing grounds. On 14 February, while anchored in Banks Bay, between Isabela and Fernandina, he and his crew witnessed, and barely survived, one of the most spectacular eruptions in Galapagos history. On Monday the fourteenth, at two o'clock, ...

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Tell me when this page is updated THE DIARY OF A POLIT-ECO TOURIST PREHISPANIC AMERICAN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND LESSONS FOR TODAY By KASHYAPA A. S. YAPA (Summary of Ingenieria prehispanica americana y sus lecciones para hoy , presented at 49th Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador, July 1997) Prehispanic civil engineering works of the American continent have yet to receive the attention and ...

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Francisco Pizarro (ca. 1475-1541) Spanish Conqueror Spanish explorer and conqueror Francisco Pizarro defeated the Inca Empire and claimed most of South America for Spain. Pizarro also established the city of Lima, Peru, and opened the way for Spanish culture and religion to dominate South America. In doing so, Pizarro conquered the largest amount of territory of any military leader and delivered ...