In March 2026, we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 military coup in Argentina. To reflect

on its significance within a broader regional frame, we speak with historians Sebastián Carassai

and Kevin Coleman, editors of Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982.

Their work adopts a comparative approach across cases such as Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina,

and Central America, examining the forces that drove these coups, the roles of the United States

and local actors, and the forms of social support that sustained them. In doing so, it challenges

the idea that these coups can be treated as a single phenomenon and instead highlights the

distinct national dynamics that shaped authoritarian rule and its legacies.

En este episodio escuchamos a la historiadora Valeria Coronel, directora de doctorado de historia andina de FLACSO. Una tremenda que ofrece un pantallazo de la historia y la historiografía del Ecuador y de America Latina desde fines del siglo XIX hasta el presente.

In this final episode, Renata and Dustin examine the resolution and consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis. They speak with Michelle Paranzino, Carlos Alzugaray, James Hershberg, Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Peter Kornbluh, William LeoGrande, Michelle Chase, Michael Bustamante, and Aaron Coy Moulton.

In this episode, Renata and Dustin examine the Cuban Missile Crisis and its moments of greatest danger. They speak with scholars including Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Michelle Chase, James Hershberg, Peter Kornbluh,Michelle Parazino, and Lars Schoultz.

In this episode, Dustin and Renata discuss the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the ways that the invasion set the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis. They speak with scholars including Michael Bustamante, Jonathan C. Brown, Lillian Guerra, Michelle Chase, and William LeoGrande.

In this episode, Renata Keller and Dustin Walcher look at the global repercussions of the Cuban Revolution, analyzing Cuba’s relations with the United States, Latin America, the Soviet Union, and the Global South. They speak to scholars including Lillian Guerra, Lorraine Bayard de Volo, William M. LeoGrande, Jonathan C. Brown, Aaron Coy Moulton, James Hershberg, Eric Gettig, Michelle Chase, and Lars Schoultz.

In this episode, Dustin and Renata explore the many changes that the Cuban Revolution brought to the island, as well as Cubans’reactions to those changes. We speak withMichelle Chase, Lillian Guerra, Eric Getting, and Michael Bustamante.

In this episode, Dustin and Renata explain their goal for the audiodocumentary: to teach listeners about the Cuban context of the Cuban Missile Crisis. They speak with Lars Schoultz, Lillian Guerra, William LeoGrande, Carlos Alzugaray, Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Michael Bustamante, and Michelle Chase about the deep history of Cuba’s struggles for sovereignty that formed the backdrop of theCuban Revolution and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Carmen Soliz and Edward Brudney interview sociologist and activist Caitlin Schroering about their new book: Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing.

Comenzamos el nuevo ciclo de Historias con una entrevista al historiador Daniel Mendiola, autor de The Mosquito Confederation: A Borderlands History of Colonial Central America. Este libro, centrado en el siglo XVIII, invita a repensar la construcción de los imperios y las fronteras tanto en el pasado como en el presente. Mendiola es doctor en Historia Latinoamericana por la Universidad de Houston (2018). Tras desempeñarse como Faculty Fellow en el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe de la Universidad de Nueva York, se incorporó a Vassar College en 2021. Ha publicado varios artículos en inglés y español en revistas como el Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos y la Hispanic American Historical Review. Historias conversó con Mendiola sobre su investigación del Reino Mosquito, una poderosa confederación indígena que en el siglo XVIII desafió a los colonizadores españoles e ingleses, plasmada en su libro The Mosquito Confederation, un estudio exhaustivo sobre este reino y su papel en la historia atlántica.