South America 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/17/2022
More Enslaved Africans Came to the Americas Through this Port than Anywhere Else. Why Have so Few Heard of It?
Despite its recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, efforts to publicly document the history of Rio's Valongo Wharf have run into opposition from the country's right-wing government and those who wish to diminish the significance of slavery in Brazil's history.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/19/2021
Voters Choose Young Leftist Gabriel Boric in Chile by Wide Margin
"At 35, Mr. Boric will be the nation’s youngest leader and by far its most liberal since President Salvador Allende, who died by suicide during the 1973 military coup that ushered in a brutal 17-year dictatorship."
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
11/12/2021
Pre-Colombian City in Peru site of Mass Grave of Women, Children
The discovery at Chan Chan is another important archaeological find in the UNESCO World Heritage site.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
7/8/2020
Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D.
Genetic analysis of their modern descendants shows that people from the Pacific Islands and South America interacted long before Europeans arrived.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/6/19
Brazil’s long, strange love affair with the Confederacy ignites racial tension
by Jordan Brasher
How did an American debate about racism make its way to Brazil?
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SOURCE: Archaeology News Network
11-20-13
Humans hunted giant sloths in South America 30,000 years ago
Giant sloths, saber-toothed cats, oversize armadillos, and other large mammals once roamed the Americas -- and humans hunted them.
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SOURCE: National Geographic
11-19-13
New clues about human sacrifices at ancient Peruvian temple
Human-sacrifice rituals at an ancient Moche temple in Peru likely featured the killing of war captives from distant valleys.
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