Benito Juarez, a highly symbolic liberal Mexico leader, fought for progress in the Mexican state and delivered its independence. As John Charles Chasteen (2016, ...
Politics
Soledad Acosta de Samper, A Girl’s View of War in the Capital
Twenty-one-year-old Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913) lived through Latin America’s Progress era (1850-1880), which came with a shift in the political power ...
Platt Amendment, 1903
Cuban history seemed to be on the brink of change at the turn of the 20th century, but perhaps not the change that many Latin American countries had already ...