The deep traces left in society by the reforms undertaken more than four decades ago by the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado are analyzed by the historian Nelson Manrique in an interview with the journalist Edmundo Cruz published in the newspaper La República in 2009, when he 41 years ha
The Bahia Conjuration or Revolta dos Alfaiates was a popular political movement that took place in Salvador, Bahia, in 1798. Its objectives were to separate Bahia from Portugal, abolish slavery and meet the demands of the poorer strata of the population. It is also known as Conspiração dos Búzios
History remembers Simón Bolívar as the great liberator of South America and the man who dreamed of a US-style democratic confederation of free states. Those who have raised this polished and mythologized version of Bolívar, today revered by a certain left, take care. American, in omitting the despot
What is racial democracy? Racial democracy relates to an ideal social structure in which all citizens, regardless of their race or ethnicity, have the same rights and are treated in the same way. The term democracy has its origin in ancient Greece and in its form of socio-political organization. T