Argentina
When Argentina Used World Cup Soccer to Whitewash Its Dirty War
When it comes to the World Cup tournament, host nations have long used the event as a giant diversionary tool. Whether the economy is sagging (South Africa), corruption scandals are raging (Brazil) or world bodies have levied sanctions in response to illegal interventions ...read more
The 7 Most Notorious Nazis Who Escaped to South America
After Allied forces defeated Germany in World War II, Europe became a difficult place to be associated with Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich. Thousands of Nazi officers, high-ranking party members and collaborators—including many notorious war criminals—escaped across the Atlantic, ...read more
Hidden Bookshelf Passageway Reveals Disturbing Nazi Collection in Argentina
After World War II, many high-ranking Nazis escaped to Argentina. There, they concealed their identities and tended to live out of the public eye. Now a massive cache of original Nazi artifacts—including a photograph of Adolf Hitler and a ghoulish cranial-measurement device—has ...read more
Fight for the Falklands: A Primer
What are the Falklands? Located in the South Atlantic Ocean some 298 miles east of the tip of South America, the Falklands have a total land area of some 4,700 miles, or not quite as much as the state of Connecticut. They consist of two main islands (East Falkland and West ...read more
Argentina invades Falklands
On April 2, 1982, Argentina invades the Falklands Islands, a British colony since 1892 and British possession since 1833. Argentine amphibious forces rapidly overcame the small garrison of British marines at the town of Stanley on East Falkland and the next day seized the ...read more