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| 1960 |
| | | Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, discovered in Buenos Aires, is kidnapped by Israeli agents | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Brazilian government moves to Brasilia, into public buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The veteran left-wing politician Victor Haya is elected president of Peru but is thwarted by a coup led by General Ricardo Godoy | |
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| 1963 |
| | | The Tupamaros are formed as an urban guerrilla group in Uruguay | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Senior officers in Brazil seize power, alleging the threat of an imminent communist takeover | |
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| 1964 |
| | | A military junta seizes power in Bolivia, ending the 12-year left-wing regime of Paz Estenssoro | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The General Assembly of the UN asks Argentina and Britain to enter negotiations on their long-running dispute over the Falklands | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Che Guevara arrives in Bolivia in the hope of fomenting a left-wing revolution | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez publishes a classic of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is captured and executed in Bolivia | |
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