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Colombia celebrates pride, advocates for LGTBI+ rights and trans law

Bogotá and major cities in Colombia were filled with colors as people proudly marched on Sunday to raise awareness of LGTBI+ rights. The celebration focused...

Margot Duhalde, the Chilean pilot who fought the Nazis in World War II

By Alexis Polo Ganzález In the framework of its 280th anniversary, the Chilean Mint, in charge of printing money in the South American country, held the Valuable Women contest to define which historical character will...

Palmares, the powerful kingdom founded in the late 1500s by escaped African slaves in northeastern Brazil

In Brazil, the world's first slave revolt occurred at the end of the 1500s, which grew into a powerful black movement known today as...

How a shipwreck almost led Brazil to war with England

By Jorge de Souza Even today, the rare visitors to the Albardão lighthouse, the most...

Peru hunts down Mennonites, a pacifist sect, for deforestation

Were it not for the lush Amazon rainforest that surrounds it, Wanderland could almost look like a piece of...

Nueva Germania, the racist dream of Nietzsche’s brother-in-law in Paraguay

On June 3, 1889, a man named Bernhard Förster, who had settled a colony of Germans in deep Paraguay, mixed morphine with strychnine in...

The crazy story of a couple who decided to cross the Atlantic in a car boat

By Jorge de Souza The year was 1946, shortly after the end of the Second World War. Australian Frederick Benjamin Carlin,...

The day Brazil attacked a German passenger ship in Rio de Janeiro

By Jorge de Souza On October 24, 1930, an armed political movement that went down in Brazilian history as the...

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