Long cherished by Indigenous peoples for its medicinal and stimulating properties, guaraná remains a key element of Brazilian identity.

Salvador Allende’s attempt to network the national economy mirrored his government’s struggle to balance centralization and decentralization.

On July 5, 1962, Algeria declared its independence after 132 years of French occupation. The transition was chaotic and violent, but inspired revolutionaries worldwide.

Some formerly enslaved Blacks and freedmen accompanied the Spanish invaders; others formed their own communities.

OSPAAAL, the international, pro-communist organization formed in 1966, decried American imperialism with powerful propaganda.

Simón Bolívar was a man of contradiction. He was willing to set in motion the gradual abolition of slavery, but that would be as far as he would go.

For nearly a century, Quilombo of Palmares was an Afro-Brazilian state, populated and run by people who had freed themselves from slavery.

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary and leader who dominated his small island nation's history for half a century, is dead at 90.