Timeline: Latin American traditionalism

Three days after Traditionis custodes, the Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica announced that use of the 1962 Missal or any other expression of the liturgy prior to 1970 was no longer authorised in the country, saying it saw no objective justification for it there. Supporters of the traditional Mass objected, and in August a priest was suspended for continuing to celebrate Mass in Latin.

In Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Richard Williamson, by then expelled from the SSPX, consecrated Fr. Jean-Michel Faure a bishop without a papal mandate. Under canon law both incurred automatic (latae sententiae) excommunication.

After the priests of the Priestly Union of Saint John Mary Vianney in Campos, Brazil — formed by followers of Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer — were reconciled with the Holy See, John Paul II erected the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney on 18 January 2002, with Bishop Licínio Rangel as administrator. It remains the only personal apostolic administration and is dedicated to the traditional Mass; Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan has led it since Rangel's death in December 2002.

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, the Brazilian Catholic thinker and activist, died in São Paulo on 3 October 1995. In the following year the Italian historian Roberto de Mattei wrote a biography of him, later published in English as The Crusader of the 20th Century with a preface by Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler.

At its 23rd general assembly, the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) approved a note criticising the TFP for a 'lack of communion' with the Brazilian Church, its hierarchy and the pope, and urging Catholics not to join or cooperate with it, according to the text as reproduced by the American TFP. The Brazilian TFP rejected the accusations as vague and generic.

In 1960 Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira founded the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), drawing on his 1959 book Revolution and Counter-Revolution. Autonomous TFPs followed in other countries, beginning with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in 1967, according to Wikipedia.