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While the 1930 Revolution absolutely deserves to be called such, due to the sheer scale of the change it unleashed, its name is also a bit deceptive in that it implies it was a bloodless event when it was anything but. Fierce battles were fought between the revolutionaries and supporters of the...

"Libertad Y Orden", Liberty and Order Notes From Me, the Author Hello there gentlemen and gentlewomen! My name's Autopilot, but you can also just call me Auto. Today, I want to present y'all a project I've been thinking about for quite a while now. While I am not new to this website, and in...

From Cape Tiburon to Cape Samaná - A United Hispaniola Timeline Foreword From a young age, the story of Haiti fascinated me, a republic of slaves who broke the shackles of the French Empire, and seized their freedom. Unfortunately, such idyllic romanticized scenarios of a republic of...

You know, the US has had a history of overthrowing lots of Latin American governments if they looked even vaguely left-leaning, but as I understand it, in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse the US mostly stepped back from this policy, allowing popular discontent against neoliberalism to...

Hello! I've been reading about the independence of Latin America recently, and something that consistently comes up is the significant role that Venezuela (what later became Venezuela) played in the downfall of Gran Colombia. I'm still trying to understand the specifics of how Venezuela's...

I'm bouncing around some ideas for a TL and looking to avoid the AH cliche of South America being identical to OTL, so I was wondering how plausible some more Spanish success in the LatAm Independence Wars would be with some of the changes I've made so far. Relevant to South America is that the...

Let's say that the Spanish Bourbons escape to Mexico like the Braganzas did to Brazil, and establish themselves in the New World. Then, for whatever reason, let's say no invasion of Russia and he campaigns in Spain instead that year, Napoleon is able to win in Europe and keep his brother on the...

To put you in context, it was a diplomatic crisis that occurred between August 9 and 18, 1987, between Venezuela and Colombia as a result of the incursion of a Colombian corvette in waters not delimited between both countries. Although the crisis was finally resolved thanks to the intervention...

Augusto César Sandino was a Nicaraguan revolutionary who became an international star due to his long struggle against the American troops that occupied his country, to the point, for example, that a Chinese brigade was named after him. Unfortunately, while he did avoid capture or death at the...

Martín de Álzaga was a Spanish merchant of Basque origin who migrated to Buenos Aires at a young age, gaining both wealth and political power as the years went by. He was, together with Santiago de Liniers, one of the main leaders of the resistance against the British invasions of the River...

So I took a cursory look at the Wikipedia article about the Fábrica Argentina de Aviones, and I found out about these two scrapped projects of a jet interceptor and fighter, respectively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_I.Ae._37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_I.Ae._48 According to their...

How could Central America reunify before 2000? The mod of Hearts of Iron 4 Red World fan fork proposed offensive invasions by Ortega but I am sure there could be other ways for those countries to unify again.

The Encilhamento was economic crisis that engulfed the young Brazilian republic in the last decade of the 19th century, caused by a government policy of unrestricted loans in an attempt to foster industrialization. This led to rampant speculation and inflation, and it wasn't until the presidency...

Despite its name, the Vaccine Revolt had no single reason, but was instead the culmination of years of popular discontent in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of Brazil, against the Old Republic. The city's low income population, already in a tight spot due to a bad economy and urban reforms that...

Though he is rarely (if ever) remembered nowadays, Roberto Silveira was one of the most promising left-wing Brazilian politicians of his generation, together with people like Leonel Brizola, Waldir Pires and Miguel Arraes. Much like Brizola, Silveira got into politics at a very young age, and...

The most important political leader Brazil had in the 20th century, Getúlio Vargas was president from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. His first administration was marked by a combination of multiple achievements, such as laws establishing workers' rights and the construction of the Companhia...

Tl;dr: What changes in Spain’s history would need to take place before 1492 as well as what changes in its style of colonization in order for its colonies to be set up for success similar to Britain’s settler colonies I would like to make a distinction at the beginning of this scenario between...

There are hundreds of threads ctalking about the american civil war, and how if it had gone differently, it would have affected america. But, I am more interested in what a divided US means for Europe. OTL, France used the turmoil of the American Civil War to intervene in Mexico, and Spain used...

Hugo Borghi is one of the many obscure historical figures who could've become far more prominent had they been just a little bit luckier. A landowner from the interior of São Paulo who benefited from a very profitable relationship with the Estado Novo dictatorship - which led, following its end...

Luís Carlos Prestes was, by far, the most prominent representative of Brazilian communism, having served as general secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB, not to be confused with PCdoB, which had a Maoist inclination) from 1943 until 1980. The "Knight of Hope", as he was known, became...