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Help Request to tell the story of the Latin American volunteers in the Great War

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Tomas Pizarro-Escuti, a 4th-year undergraduate student at the University of Aberdeen is undertaking research for his dissertation about the history of the Latin American volunteers in the Great War.  The historiography on the participation of Latin America in the First World War is scarce in both in the European and Ibero-American academia despi…


Argentina in the Great War

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Argentina was a neutral country during World War I. However, one-third of its population was made up of foreign citizens, including those of countries currently at war. The area was prime for German propaganda and for German agents. One of these agents apparently poisoned a large number of mules which were due to be shipped to Mesopotamia The effo…