This continent occupies the entire southern part of the supercontinent of the Americas, that’s why is called South America. It is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean from the west, by the Atlantic Ocean from the east and north, by the Caribbean Sea from the northwest and is connected with North America in the northeast part. An overland border between two continents stretches along the Panama-Colombian state boundary.
Totally there are 12 independent countries and 3 dependent territories in South America. The largest country by area and the most populated is Brazil, it occupies about the 50% of the total mainland area and more than 52% of the population live on its territory. The smallest independent state is Suriname, it is the only nation in this region, speaking Dutch as an official language.
As for travel, the most visited among the South American countries are Brazil, Argentina and Peru, the last one is the home of the region’s most famous tourist attraction Machu Picchu, the mysterious city of the Incas. (Source)
List of Countries in South America (Click a country to see related historical events):
A chronology of events about or related to South America
Hillary Clinton presented an Ethics Statement to the U.S. Senate Promising not to involve The Clinton Foundation in any way in the business of the U.S. State Dept.”
Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton on January 5, 2009, in a letter to State Department Designated Agency Ethics Official James H. Thessin: “For the duration of my appointment as Secretary if I am confirmed, I will not participate personally and substantially in any particular matter involving specific parties in which The William J. Clinton Foundation (or the Clinton Global Initiative) is a party or represents a ...
Cocaine 1: The 2006 Mexico DC-9 Drug Bust was Another Government Cover Up of their Drug Trafficking
A DC-9 painted to impersonate a U.S. government plane, made an emergency landing in-route from Venezuala to the USA and was found to be containing over 5 tonnes of cocaine. DEA says no harm, no foul. The pilot "disappeared", unnamed, and the plane was de-registered and sold within days to an unknown customer in Venezuela. Official Narrative: The DEA used the event to suggest the success ...
CIA Orchestrates Coup to Oust Venezuala’s President Hugo Chavez, but Coup Fails
The April 2002 coup attempt against President Chavez represented the perhaps most important turning point of the Chavez Presidency. First, it showed just how far the opposition was willing to go to get rid of the country’s democratically elected president. Up until that point the opposition could claim that it was merely fighting Chavez with the political tools provided by liberal democracy. Afterwards, the mask was ...
Dolly the Sheep, the World’s First Live Cloned Mammal, is Born
Two decades after Scotland's Dolly the sheep became the first cloned mammal, consumers may well wonder whether they are drinking milk or eating meat from cookie-cutter cows or their offspring. The simple answer: "probably". The fact is, there is no way to know for sure, say the experts, even in Europe, which has come closer to banning livestock cloning than anywhere else in the world. With ...
The head of the DEA, Judge Robert Bonner, accused the CIA of being Illegal Drug Smugglers
Reporter: "A ton of cocaine was smuggled into the United States of America by the Venezuelan National Guard, in cooperation with the CIA?" Judge Robert Bonner, Head of DEA: "That's exactly what appears to have happened." The estimated worth of a ton of pure cocaine was at the time, hundreds of millions of dollars. CBS News Transcripts 60 MINUTES November 21, 1993 HEADLINE: THE CIA'S COCAINE; ...
The Iran Contra Affair First Revealed when Pilot Eugene Hasenfus is Shot Down Over Nicaragua While Delivering Arms & Cocaine to the Contras
The (Iran) Contra affair is first revealed on this date when pilot Eugene Hasenfus is shot down over Nicaragua while delivering arms to the Contras (and quite likely cocaine if it had made its way back to the U.S.). Hasenfus admits to being CIA, a claim immediately publicly refuted by CIA insiders as General John Singlaub of the American Security Council and Elliott Abrams of the State Department. On March ...
Underwater Exploring Is Banned In Brazil
A dispute between the Brazilian Navy and an American marine archeologist led Brazil to bar a diver from entering the country and to place a ban on all underwater exploration. The dispute involved Robert Marx, a Florida author and treasure hunter, who asserted that the Brazilian Navy dumped a thick layer of silt on the remains of a Roman vessel that he discovered inside Rio de ...
Colonel Edward Cutolo Published an Affidavit Exposing Operation Watchtower about the CIA’s Drug Trafficking
Operation Watchtower was one of many drug trafficking operations from Central America consisting of the placement and operation of low frequency radio beacons to guide low-flying pilots from Colombia to Panama. It also consisted of making available to the pilots the radio frequencies and schedules of drug interdiction aircraft so as to avoid detection. Because of the extremely low altitude these drug-laden aircraft flew, often less ...
Cuba Air Flight 455 Bomb Attack Kills All 73 Passengers. Mastermind Luis Posada Carriles Escapes Prison and Ends up Working for the CIA within a Few Weeks
It was a peaceful Wednesday afternoon in Barbados 35 years ago. Dalton Guiller had just finished a round of waterskiing and was refueling his boat on shore when a roar in the sky startled him. A low-flying and apparently damaged airliner was fast approaching from the west toward the beach. “It didn’t look right. It was too low. I then saw the plane rise slightly, bank ...
‘Inside the Company: CIA Diary’ is Published by CIA Defector, Phillip Agee, to Inform the Public About what the CIA was Secretly Doing on Behalf of the American People
Philip Agee worked as a case officer for the United States Central Intelligence Agency from 1957 to 1968. In 1975 he published a book about covert operations in Latin America entitled Inside the Company: CIA Diary in order to inform the public about what the U.S. government was secretly doing on behalf of the American people. "When I was writing my first book, I concluded in ...
