Around 1465, before Christopher Columbus arrived in America (1492), the then hatun auqui (conquering prince) Túpac Yupanqui –who would later become the tenth ruler of the Inca civilization– undertook an expedition to the current islands of Polynesia –one of the sub regions of Oceania–. The mission p
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 “Discovery” of Brazil happened on April 22, 1500 , when the Portuguese arrived in the lands that today belong to Brazil. This event, which marked the history of our country, was the result of the intellectual effort and of several maritime expeditions carried out by Portuguese navigators. Incr
Mark Thurner, American historian, investigated the origins of bicentennial Peru. Bolívar and San Martín, in their republican vision, excluded and underestimated the Indian in the formation of a country that continues to discriminate against them. The subject named “indigenous” enters the Peruvian sc