by Strong Americas | Aug 4, 2026
Spanish explorers reached Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast under Christopher Columbus in 1502, and King Ferdinand later ordered an expedition under Diego de Nicuesa to establish a colony there, but dense jungle, tropical disease, and resistance from native groups...
by Strong Americas | Aug 3, 2026
Argentina entered the twentieth century as one of the world’s wealthiest nations, its economy driven by agricultural exports and mass European immigration. This prosperity proved fragile: the Great Depression of the 1930s battered the export economy and ushered...
by Strong Americas | Aug 2, 2026
By 1810, Spain’s grip on its American colonies had weakened considerably after Napoleon’s invasion of the Iberian Peninsula deposed King Ferdinand VII. News of Spain’s political crisis reached Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la...
by Strong Americas | Jul 30, 2026
The early twentieth century in Antigua and Barbuda was shaped by a declining sugar economy and the gradual rise of an organized labor movement. Vere C. Bird formed the islands’ first trade union in 1939, and the union’s growing influence carried him into...
by Strong Americas | Jul 30, 2026
Antigua assumed a status of association with the United Kingdom on 27 February 1967 under the West Indies Act of 1967, gaining full self-government over internal affairs while London retained responsibility for defense and foreign relations. The arrangement fell short...
