Curriculum - Latin American History
- Acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone
- The Agency for International Development Is Established
- Aimé Césaire
- Alamo
- Alberto Santos-Dumont
- American and Mexican Companies Form Maquiladoras
- Amistad Slave Revolt
- Amnesty International Exposes Cruelty of Death Penalty
- Amnesty International Starts Program to Prevent Torture
- Antarctic Survey Team Confirms Ozone Depletion
- Anthropologists Claim That Ecuadorian Pottery Shows Transpacific Contact in 3000 b.c.e.
- Antonio José de Sucre
- Antonio López de Santa Anna
- Archaic Indians Adapt to Warmer Climates
- Argentina Conducts “Dirty War” Against Leftists
- Argentine Dirty War
- Argentine Leaders Are Convicted of Human Rights Violations
- Arias Sánchez Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Astronomers Detect Planets Orbiting Another Star
- Augusto César Sandino
- Aztec Empire
- Baron Constantine
- Bartolomé de Las Casas Publishes Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies
- Battle of Ayacucho
- Battle of Buena Vista
- Battle of Cerro Gordo
- Battle of Falkland Islands
- Battle of Goose Green
- Battle of Monterrey
- Battle of San Jacinto
- Battle of San Juan/El Caney
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Benito Juárez
- Bernardo Alberto Houssay
- Bernardo O’Higgins
- Bingham Discovers an Inca City in the Peruvian Jungle
- Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
- Borges’ Ficciones Transcends Traditional Realism
- Borlaug Begins Work on High-Yield Wheat
- Bourlag Receives the Nobel Prize for Work on World Hunger
- Bracero Program
- Brazil Begins Era of Intense Repression
- Brazilian Anti-Republican Uprisings
- Brazilian Antiregency Uprisings
- Brazilian Police Massacre Rio Slum Dwellers
- Brazilian Police Massacre Slum Dwellers
- Brazilian President Announces Plans to Protect Rain Forests
- Brazil’s Ailing Economy Gets $41.5 Billion in International Aid
- British Colonial Wars
- Burr’s Conspiracy
