Desde la colonización hasta hoy.
Colombia entered the twentieth century governed by a two-party political system dominated by Liberals and Conservatives, a rivalry that would erupt into one of the country’s most violent periods. Economic changes during the 1920s, including a coffee-export boom followed by rural displacement, added to long-simmering social tensions between the parties. The assassination of Liberal leader […]
For much of the twentieth century, Chile was governed under a relatively stable constitutional democracy, even as the country experienced cycles of economic difficulty and political polarization between conservative and left-wing movements. By the 1960s, calls for deeper social and economic reform had intensified, setting the stage for one of the more dramatic political transformations […]
Canada entered the twentieth century as a young confederation still finding its place within the British Empire, but the two world wars proved formative in shaping a distinct national identity. Under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, the country experienced strong economic growth and immigration in the years before 1911, and its contributions on the battlefields of […]
At the start of the twentieth century, Brazil was still a predominantly rural society under the Old Republic, an arrangement in which power rotated among regional oligarchies while a small elite tied to coffee exports shaped national policy. Industrial growth was slow and dependence on foreign manufactured goods and credit persisted for decades, though the […]
In the early twentieth century, Bolivia’s politics were dominated by a small elite tied to the tin-mining industry, and electoral participation remained extremely limited under a series of nominally liberal but largely undemocratic governments. Organized labor movements expanded during the 1920s but faced repeated government crackdowns, and the disastrous Chaco War against Paraguay from 1932 […]
