Category: South America

In 1931 Gabriel Terra was elected, who was dictator and remained in office until 1938, when General Alfredo Baldomir overthrew him and imprinted all his politics after a close friendship…

On April 30, 1939 Josè Felix Estigarribia was elected president who immediately set to work to improve the country’s economy. He had a project for the construction of a railway…

The parliamentary regime, meanwhile, was going through a very critical period due to the internal discord between the parties, which generated the absolute instability of the successive ministries, under the…

TOBAGO It was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1498. In the 16th century, the Spaniards were the first colonizers of this island, which with Trinidad is part of South America. In…

Burnham had achieved excellent results by improving communication routes, with a consequent increase in exports. With the entry into force of the new Constitution on 23 February 1970 the “Cooperative…

In 1891 the Brazilian Constituent Assembly voted the first Republican Constitution which remained in force until 1930. Then there was a period of 25 years in which dictatorships followed, the…

In 1957 there were important increases: in the population, in the production of sugar cane, rice and citrus fruits and among the minerals in the extraction of bauxite, the main…

In 1944 the governing parties, each for their own account, designated the future peesident which, after revolutions and counter-revolutions, was JM Velasco Ibarra. The new assembly did not repudiate the…