Readers of South America for Visitor's pages about people, past or present, were most interested in:
- Jose de San Martin – No surprise here! Revered as Argentina's greatest hero, San Martín was also Liberator of Chile and Protector of Peru. Called Knight of the Andes and Santo de la Espada for his efforts and leadership in south America’s Wars of Indepoendence, he is also the subject of one of history's intriguing unsolved mysteries.
- Natalee Holloway – This attractive blonde American teenager disappeared the last night of her graduation visit to Aruba and has not been seen since. The investigation into her disappearance is the stuff of mystery novels, complete with clues, suspects and a great deal of conflict and media attention.
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Bernardo O’Higgins - The illegitimate son of an Irish colonial administrator and a Chilean criolla rose from obscurity, battling both social prejudice and the Spanish colonial forces to become the Hero of the Chilean Wars of Independence and the Supreme Dictator of Chile from 1817 - 1823.
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Gauchos – These legendary horsemen of the pampas and plains Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil are almost larger than life, and just as fascinating.
- Doctora Laura Bozzo - As the blonde, glamorous host of the wildly popular Peruvian talk show, Laura, she presents a puzzling case. Her show was taped from the studio in Lima where she lived for several years under house arrest for alleged complicity in a political scandal involving former President Alberto Fujimori and Vladimiro Montesino and was not shown on Peruvian television.
This list was derived from the number of times a reader clicked on the above links throughout the year.
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