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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...

And who could be?

The 1910 presidential election was the first in Brazil's Old Republic era to look like a competitive race, in spite of all the fraud. It pitted two political heavyweights of the time: Hermes da Fonseca, former minister of war and supported by Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, and Ruy Barbosa...

This idea based on some reading of different Fascist or Fascist style movements in Latin America (like the Mexican Gold Shirts). FDR was all about the Good Neighbor policy, so much so that he didn't even use military force when Mexico nationalized their Oil industry. Which got me thinking what...

How could Spain have maintained Latin America under its empire until the decolonization era? In OTL the Peninsular War sparked the independence movements, so avoiding it would be obvious, but then what? Would the Spanish Empire need some reforms? How would Spain deal with the US and its...

The 1955 Brazilian presidential election was pretty close: Juscelino Kubitschek, one of Getúlio Vargas' many political heirs and candidate of PSD and PTB, defeated UDN's Juarez Távora by a margin of just 5%, or roughly 400.000 out of 9 million votes. Távora's campaign was hampered by two main...

The Cisplatine War was a two and a half year long (December 1825 to August 1828) conflict which pitted the Empire of Brazil on one side and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata on the other, the latter of whom also enjoyed the support of a group rebels known as the Thirty-Three Orientals...

The Confederacy ITTL wins the American Civil War in the year of 1863. More specifically, they win Gettysburg followed by many more decisive victories that force Lincoln to surrender by September 1863. How would a victory of the Confederate States affect the Latin American region?

South America, alongside Europe and Pacific islands and China, has been well-Known battlefield of WW2. So here is a challenge: With PoD of 1933, prevent South American theater from opening in WW2.

Antônio Delfim Netto was one of the last Brazilian dictatorship's most prominent civilian members. He served as Minister of Finance from 1967 to 1974, the height of the economic miracle, and was also ambassador to France for a while before becoming Minister of Planning during João Figueiredo's...

Twelve years before his OTL election as president of Chile, Salvador Allende almost accomplished that exact same feat in 1958, but he lost to Jorge Alessandri (who he would eventually defeat in 1970) by a margin of less than 3%. What if he won? How different would this hypothetical presidency...

Kudos goes to Dr Sinclair way back when by demonstrating how 50 countries with randomly assigned GDP growth rates could end up with vastly different sized economies over the course of 50 years...(his intention was to show that the relative poverty of some African nations relative to others is...

Sigh, Another Timeline? Yes. Well, get on with it, what's it about? My attempt at a realistic Mexico-Wank with the Second Mexican Empire Succeeding How will you update this TL? Dunno. I have exams going on, and I wrote this after I got too tired from studying.1 update per 2 weeks is what I seem...

Obviously, this is a pretty crazy one, but I've been reading Jared's DoD and was struck with the idea of reversing the fates of North and South America in that TL. Essentially, how could a Latin American super power (Gran Colombia maybe?) get the idea that they were a master race, and decide to...

Instead of the prophecy being fulfilled in a swamp in the center of Mexico, it's fulfilled in what is now the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo. Right across the border from Laredo, Texas. During an expedition north by the Aztec empire. What if a city the size of Mexico City (which is the capitol...