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Archive for the ‘Chile’ Category
Live with honor or die with glory. – Bernardo O’Higgins Bernardo O’Higgins is known as the liberator and national hero of Chile, but he had humble beginnings. He was the illegitimate son of an Irish engineer and a young Chilean socialite. His father Ambrosio, had been a servant boy in Ireland. Ambrosio emigrated to Spain as [...]
Perhaps no date in Pan-American history is as important or controversial as October 12, 1492. On this date two worlds collided. Mexican philosopher Jose Vasconcelos coined the term La Raza Cósmica, the Cosmic Race (for lack of a better word), to describe the people of Latin America, and what he considered the future of the human [...] |
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