/lit/ - Literature

I was never taught anything about it in school. I can make a short list of the facts I know about SA:
-Colonized by the Spanish
-Brazil 4th most populous country
-Pablo Escobar
-I take it Simone Bolivar is something akin to some country's George Washington
-Christ the Redeemer
-Falklands War
-Incas (Aztecs are CA I believe?)
-Che is from Argentina
-Peron, I understand was something of a benevolent dictator?
Thats it folks. Recommend me some reading to better understand this continent, its countries and its history. The appeal to me is that I would be filling a black hole in my knowledge of the world, everything I would read would be new.