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
The Oligarchic Republic (1894-1930) is characterized by the alternation of power between the coffee oligarchies of the states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo. The presidents of this time were elected, in most cases, by the São Paulo Republican Party and the Mineiro Republican Party. From the 1930s o
The city of Machu Picchu was built in the 15th century and was one of the most important of the Inca civilization. By Me. Cláudio Fernandes Machu Picchu was, next to Cuzco, one of the two most important urban centers of the ancient Inca civilization . “Inca” (the son of the Sun) was the name give
Thegold cycle it is the time when the extraction and export of gold figured as the main economic activity in the colonial period. It began at the end of the 17th century, when sugar exports from the Northeast were falling due to the competition exerted by the English and Dutch sugar production in t