I Found Rare Historical Photos From Latinamerica (25 Pics)

Argentina

A young Ernesto Guevara, before being "El Ché", poses next to his motorcycle in 1950. The photo was used to advertise the Micron engine, in which a letter from Guevara was transcribed assuring that with him, he traveled 4,000 km out of 12 Argentine provinces. Guevara's motorcycle trips would take him to know the Latin American reality that pushed him to join the guerrillas.

Montevideo - Uruguay

A photograph of a carnival party at the Hotel del Prado at the beginning of the last century.

Mexico City - Mexico

The confectioner Marithé de Alvarado poses next to her wedding cake that she named "Amor/Love" in 1954. It took her 6 months to prepare it.

Siboney - Cuba

Rufino Álvarez's house on Siboney beach was the work of Mario Romañach, considered the best modern architect in Cuba. The house was completed in 1957, in the midst of the Cuban revolution. After Castro's triumph, Romañach emigrated out of the country.

Viña del Mar - Chile

In 1960 Ecuador donated a Galapagos Tortoise to Chile. This was preserved in the Presidential Palace of Viña del Mar. The turtle died in 1992 wrapped in legends. Some say that a pack of dogs attacked her while others affirm that she was shot to see if she would resist a gun by friends of the dictator Pinochet during a party.

Lima - Peru

Between 1969 and 1970 there was an invasion of pelicans in the streets of Lima. They were mainly seen in the fish market where they were a pest.

Mexico City - Mexico

A group of women observe how a long skirt is cut from one of them to turn it into a miniskirt. That was part of a protest march in 1970 by a group of women who demanded freedom in their way of dressing and to stop being criticized.
Among the banners, slogans such as "To use midi, you have to be midiocre" and "the mini is not fashion, it is a state of mind" were read.

Perú

At the end of the 60s, the Pereyra brothers founded the Peruvian rock band "El Polen", the first band that fused rock with Andean sounds.

Bogotá - Colombia

Poco más de 25 personas realizan el 28 de junio de 1982 la primera marcha y protesta LGBT en Colombia.
The assistant Fernando Alviar remembers that there were more policemen than assistants, however the press assured that it was a massive meeting with people from Mexico, Argentina and Peru.

San Juan - Puerto Rico

In a city famous for its sudden winds, on March 22, 1978, Karl Wallenda attempted to cross two buildings but 20 meters from the finish line, a gust of wind caused him to fall to his death.
Several years later, his grandson decided to complete the feat, but his mother Delilah (Karl's daughter) convinced him to join the act for his safety. The Wallendas' feat was completed in June 2011.

Montevideo - Uruguay

Between 1865 and 1870, Paraguay suffered The Great War where it had to face Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina, killing more than half of the population of Paraguay. In the midst of the drama, the American George T. Bate started his war photography business. With permission from Uruguay, he sent a photographer to the front lines to take photos of the battle and sell them to newspapers and families as souvenirs.
According to historians, the business failed. This would be the third war in the world to be photographed (after the Crimea and the Civil War) and the first in Latin America.

Chayanta or Macha - Bolivia

The Tinku is an indigenous ritual from Bolivia that consists of a dance fight. The combat ends when one of the fighters sheds blood on the Pachamama or Mother Earth. This sacrifice will allow good harvests for the peoples who practice it.
It is believed that it is an Inca ritual that was mixed with practices of Christianity.
This photograph taken around 1908 is believed to be the first photo of a Tinku. This ritual is famous and popular to this day.

La Habana - Cuba

In 1910, an erratic cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico caused a 5-day rain in Havana. The flooding on the island was about to make the capital of Cuba disappear, flooding 2.5 kilometers of the coastline.

Uruguay

In a circus show, an actor wrestles with a kangaroo in 1922.

Guatemala

Between 1917 and 1923, Jesús Castillo composed the opera Quiché Vinak or "La gente del Quiché". It was premiered at the Teatro Abril in Guatemala on July 25, 1924 and is considered one of the first musical and scenic works with a native indigenous theme in America. The work was not presented again until 2021, almost 100 years later.

Venezuela

In 1934 the Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gómez ordered the creation of an armored vehicle to warn of the arms power of Venezuela against Colombia. This was revealed to the public for the first time at a military parade that turned out to be difficult to maneuver, with poor ventilation and almost zero visibility.

Argentina

The crew members of the Sarmiento frigate pose with the animals that will accompany them in 1936

Andes - Argentina

A man poses in 1930 next to the stone table in the Andes, a monolith that was once supported by a glacier.

Mexico City - Mexico

In 1946, the pilot Jacobo Fernández Alberdi crossed with a biplane between the arches of the Monument to the Revolution to ask Elisa Flores to marry him from there. She gave him the "yes" shouting.

Medellin - Colombia

During the war between liberals and conservatives that existed in Colombia, a modified tank bus rides through the streets of Medellín to take children to school in 1947.

Buenos Aires - Argentina

A girl performs at the Eva Perón amphitheater in 1953. The site was burned down in 1959.

Santa Fe - Colombia

An elephant shows off its ability to balance on a board at a Colombian zoo in the 1960s.

Santiago de Chile - Chile

In February 1969, Luis Ladrón de Guevara photographed an electrician repairing cables in the CORFO building.

Colombia

Delia Zapata Olivella "Yeya" rests on a sofa in typical Colombian attire. She dedicated her life to the investigation of folkloric dance reaching the Ivory Coast, Africa, in search of the African roots of Colombian dance. She died there after contracting Malaria.

Ecuador

With the help of hallucinogenic drugs, a Makuna shaman in the Amazon dances around a sick person to diagnose his ills. The photo was taken for an academic paper published in 1990.
Shamans and healers are very famous and sought after in Latin America.