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Operation condor
This event was a secret plan to eliminate their left wing opponents. It ended in the early 1980s but as many as 60000 people could have been killed. Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Uruguay had several things in common they were targeting these countries. They killed a few thousand people but the leaders were shattered after this event.

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The Cuban Revolution
At this time Fidel Castro came in and him and his men attacked barracks at Moncada. Cuba overthrew the government after this war. Fidel Castro was the leader. He went on to rule Cuba from 1959 to 2008.

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The Mexican Revolution
This event ended dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitutional republic. Francisco Madero, Pascual Orozco, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, participated in this crisis. This was also called the Mexican Civil War. It was a bloody and horrible event. It was a major armed struggle.

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These years was the construction of the Panama Canal. Panama Canal needed to be rebuilt. They changed the world wide shipping drastically because of the canal. Rebuilding took roughly 100 years to reconstruct.

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The War of The Pacific
Chile and Bolivia went into war after sending decades bickering over a border. The Chileans won the war. By 1881 the Chilean army had captured Lima and by 1884 Bolivia signed a truce. Bolivia was devastated and took many years to recover.

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The War of Triple Alliance. This was the most devastating war in South America. The Triple Alliance pitted Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil against Paraguayar in South America. By the time the war was over, hundreds of thousands had died and Paraguay was in ruins. It would take decades for the nation to recover.

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The Mexican war started. Mexico went to war with the United States in 1846 after a series of skirmishes on the border. After the devastating mexico war the peace was worse. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo helped a little bit with the peace after the war.

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Spain and Portugal gained independence. Around 1810 Latin America declared independence from Spain. By 1825, Mexico, Central America, and South America were free, soon to be followed by Brazil.

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At this time the conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires was made. This is was after the New World was discovered. Spain soon realized that it was an incredibly valuable resource that should be pacified and colonized

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This is when Christopher Columbus arrived in America. The Treaty Of
Tordesillas was made. This treaty essentially ceded Brazil to the Portuguese while keeping the rest of the New World for Spain. Therefore laying the framework for the modern demographics of Latin America.