The Latin American History Podcast aims to tell the story of Spanish and Portuguese America from its very beginnings up until the present day. Latin America’s history is home to some of the most exciting and unbelievable stories of adventure and exploration, and this podcast will tell these stories in all their glory. It will examine colonial society, slavery, and what life was like for the region’s inhabitants during this period. We will look at what caused the wars of independence, how the ...
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Nuestra Familia Unida: History and Genealogy - History and Genealogy - Mexico, Latin America, La Raza, Chicano, Chicana, Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Indigenous. . .History en total de nosotros the Native ...
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History podcasts of Mexico, Latina, Latino, Hispanic, Chicana, Chicano, Mexicana, Mexicano, genealogy, mexico, mexican, mexicana, mexicano, mejico, mejicana, mejicano, hispano, hispanic, hispana, latino, latina, latin, america, espanol, espanola, spanish, indigenous, indian, indio, india, native, native american, chicano, chicana, mesoamerican, mesoamerica, raza, podcast, podcasting, nuestra, familia, or unida are welcome here. If it has to do with the history of America, California, Oregon, ...
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Brazil in World War 2 - Part 4 - The Aftermath
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19:34In the final part in our series on Brazil and World War 2, we look at what happened after war. We examine if the country achieved the geo-political, military and economic aims it had set out as its reason for participating, and how their involvement influenced the following decades of internal politics. We also discuss what life was like the soldie…
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Brazil in World War 2 - Part 3 - The War at Home
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24:16Having looked at what the Brazilian soldiers and pilots did on foreign soil during the war, it's now time to turn our attention towards the impact the conflict had on the country itself. These impacts were many and varied. Today we look at blackouts, secret invasion plans, and the huge sacrifices made by the "rubber soldiers" - more of whom died in…
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Brazil in World War 2 - Part 2 - The Campaign
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19:47Today we look at the Brazilian military campaign in detail. We follow the progress of the Smoking Cobras across Italy, and recount their challenges and most important battles. Our Sponsors: * Check out the Warpath game for PC and mobile: https://bit.ly/4ixJCm3 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-latin-american-history-podcast/exclus…
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Brazil in World War Two - Part 1 - The Build Up
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21:39Uniquely among Latin American nations, and often forgotten, the Brazilian army fought in WW2, sending troops to fight in Europe. The Smoking Cobras faced numerous challenges, but they proved themselves to be extraordinarily brave and held their own during their time fighting. This is the first of a four part series on Brazil's experience of the Sec…
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Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain - An Interview with Stephanie Schmidt
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40:42Today we have a special interview episode in which Stephanie Schmidt (Associate Professor in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo) tells us about her new book Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain. The book examines a set of tragic stories which occurred in the years following the conques…
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The Manila Galleons - Part 2
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24:35In the second part of our look at the Manila galleon trade we look at the people whose lives were impacted by it, and how this has affected the very genetics of Mexico and the Philippines. These people include convicts, Portuguese traders, Jews from Iberia escaping persecution, Japanese Samurai, and pirates from Britain and the Netherlands. Our Spo…
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The Manila Galleons - Part 1
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25:06Although often forgotten, the Manila Galleon trade route between the Philippines and Mexico was hugely important to Latin America, Asia, and the rest of the world. For hundreds of years this trade across the Pacific helped drive globalisation and fund both Spain and China. In today's episode we outline how the trade worked and the deep cultural inf…
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A Brief History of Post-Conquest Latin America - Part 9 The 21st Century
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27:24Today we finish of our overview series of Latin American history by looking at the region's most recent events. Among the subjects covered are the Washington Consensus, the Left Turn, populism and migration. Our Sponsors: * Check out the Warpath game for PC and mobile: https://bit.ly/4ixJCm3 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-latin…
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A Brief History of Post-Conquest Latin America - Part 8 The End of Cold War Politics
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23:06The fall of the Soviet Union sent shock waves around the world, and moved the global geopolitical situation into new territory. Having been a cold war battle ground, Latin America experienced this change as abruptly as anywhere. Compounding things was the fact that this was coupled with a severe economic crisis, and so this episode we examine how t…
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A Brief History of Post-Conquest Latin America - Part 7 The Cold War Dictatorships
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23:58While many countries were experiencing left-wing insurgencies during the cold war decades, some were also coming under the rule of dictators. Of these, some waged 'dirty wars' on their populations to either combat the guerillas or stifle any chance of them emerging. To finish our look at the cold war, we tie up some of the loose ends. We discuss a …
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A Brief History of Post-Conquest Latin America - Part 6 The World Wars and the Cold War Insurgencies
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29:26The Cold War period was one of turmoil in Latin America. Local political trends and outside involvement by superpowers fighting their global battle of ideologies combined to create social conflict waged by both left and right. In this episode we look at the insurgencies which swept the region. Some, like the one in Cuban would result in socialist g…
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A Brief Overview of Post-Conquest Latin America - Part 5 The Early 20th Century
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40:51By 1900 the world had become truly globalised, and so Latin America was affected by the rise of the same competing ideologies as Europe and the USA. This was an the age of workers movements and nationalism, where the economic struggles caused by the Great Depression saw people look for alternatives to the established order. Of course, these politic…
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A Brief History of Post-Conquest Latin America - Part 4 More Post-independence Conflict
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27:58Today we move northwards, to look at Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean during the immediate decades after independence from Spain. We follow the Central American nation's on-off relationship with each other, and the rise of the USA. The later will lead to war with Mexico, and intervention to win independence for Spain's last remaining colo…
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A Brief History of Post-Conquest Latin America - Part 3 Post Independence Conflict
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30:12Now that Latin America was independent, what kind of countries would its leaders build? And how big or small would those countries be? Today we look at the major disagreements which created conflict - between liberal republicans and conservative traditionalists, and between centralists and federalists. We also look at the future of slavery, and the…
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A Brief Overview of Post-Conquest Latin American History - Part 2 The Wars of Independence
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23:19Latin America's independence was a long and drawn out affair, involving multiple decades of war to achieve. It also, bizarrely, happened almost by accident. In today's episode we look at the causes behind the biggest change in Latin America since colonisation began, as well as the men who waged the campaign against Spain. We also examine the very d…
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A Brief Overview of Post-Conquest Latin American History - Part 1 The Colonial Era
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34:20Having broken from the previous chronological format of this podcast, one of things I have been thinking about is the potential lack of context for subsequent episodes. This then, is a series which provides a very rough overview of the major events and ideas which shaped Latin America from the end of the conquests to the present day. Hopefully it w…
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Oil, Aid, and Human Rights in 20th Century Guatemala – an Interview with Richard Balzano
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53:09Guatemala is not usually thought of as an oil county, and that is of course, largely because it is not one. Today’s interviewee however, traces the fascinating story of a largely forgotten – and largely unrealised – oil rush which threatened to take place there, based on a resource which wasn’t there – or to put it more precisely – wasn’t there in …
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The Bizarre History of Clipperton Island
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27:08Today’s story is not about a specific event, but rather an overview of a place which might have been about as far from the forefront of the big events in Latin American history as it is possible to get, yet which saw a succession of bizarre occurrences across its history. Despite being uninhabited for most of human history, this remote atoll has dr…
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The Amazon in Times of War - An Interview with Marcos Colón
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57:45Today we have a special interview episode with Marcos Colón about his new book The Amazon in Times of War. The book is a collection of essays which detail Marcos' work in the Amazon rainforest, and chronicle the threats which the region, its people, and its non-human inhabitants face. In the interview we talk about how Brazil's recent political his…
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Juan de Onate and the Foundation of New Mexico - Part 3
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20:54In the final part of our mini-series on Juan de Onate's time in New Mexico we follow him on his third journey, westwards in search of the Pacific Ocean, and then look at his fate and that of his colony. Our Sponsors: * Check out the Warpath game for PC and mobile: https://bit.ly/4ixJCm3 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-latin-amer…
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Juan de Onate and the Foundation of New Mexico - Part 2
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22:49Onate faces the first real resistance to his colony, and takes it badly. The Acoma massacre is probably the event of his conquests for which he is most well known. Our Sponsors: * Check out the Warpath game for PC and mobile: https://bit.ly/4ixJCm3 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-latin-american-history-podcast/exclusive-content …
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Juan de Onate and the Foundation of New Mexico
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27:10Today we start a three part series on the conquest of New Mexico. In this first episode we introduce Juan de Onate - the conquistador tasked with incorporating the territory into the Spanish empire, and follow him through the deserts of northern Mexico. Our Sponsors: * Check out the Warpath game for PC and mobile: https://bit.ly/4ixJCm3 Support thi…
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A History of Mesoamerican Food - Part 2
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17:38In the second and final part of our mini-series on Mesoamerican food, we look at how West Africa, the USA, and the rest of Latin America have influenced the region's cuisine. Then, we look at drinks. Everyone and everything from protectionist tax laws and Filipino immigrants to Russian religious sects and smuggler-priests have played a role in the …
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A History of Mesoamerican Food - Part 1
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33:33The food of Mesoamerica (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) is perhaps the best in all of Latin America. In part one of two on the history of the region's cuisine, we look at how indigenous and European influences combined to create such a deep food culture. Our Sponsors: * Check out the Warpath game for PC and mobile: https://bit.ly/4ixJ…
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Today we look at a concept known as the black legend. There is no question that the Spanish conquests of Latin America were bloody affairs, and that conquest as a whole is not exactly pleasant. There is however a school a thought which argues that the Spanish were vilified for geo-political reasons, often hypocritically by those doing the vilifying…
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