Chile: A Brief History Of Latin America

Chile is a long, skinny country in South America, bordering Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. Many of you may have heard of it. However, it is unlikely that many of you know much about it. How much do you know about Chile’s Independence, or its political turmoil in the 60’s and 70’s? In school, we have been taking a history class every year since the third grade. Yet how much have we really learned about our world? We have learned a bit about foreign countries in the past few years, but how much have we learned about South America, our hemispherical neighbors? Our nation’s history is heavily intertwined with that of the continent below us, yet we haven’t gone into very much detail when studying it. Why not? We need to learn more about Latin America,