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Damming the Flood

by Peter Hallward
“A marvelous book ... riveting and deeply informed.”—Noam Chomsky
14 posts
I, Rigoberta Menchú

by Rigoberta Menchú
The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
12 posts
Filming Pancho

by Margarita de Orellana
An absorbing look at how early twentieth-century Hollywood shaped the US’s conception of Mexico.
1 post
The Bolivarian Revolution

by Simon Bolivar

A collection of documents from iconic revolutionary, Símon Bolívar, introduced by Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela.

8 posts

The Haitian Revolution

by Toussaint L'Ouverture

Haiti’s ousted premier on the leader of the world’s first black republic.

5 posts
Pirates of the Caribbean

by Tariq Ali

Fully updated edition of this fiery polemic on Latin America’s challenge to US-led neoliberalism.

16 posts
Revolutionary Horizons

by Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson
A comprehensive history of insurrection in Bolivia.
4 posts
Changing Venezuela by Taking Power

by Gregory Wilpert

Venezuela under Hugo Chávez could be a model for peaceful revolution—or it could all be undone by the specters of the past.

4 posts

Jorge Luis Borges

by Beatriz Sarlo
An essential study of Borges as a Latin American writer.
Evil Hour in Colombia

by Forrest Hylton
The most up-to-date book on Colombia: from the mid-19th century to today's guerrilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries.
1 post
The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile

by Jonathan Haslam

The rise and fall of Allende's regime, and the role of the US and Cuba.

5 posts
Barbecued Husbands

by Betty Mindlin
Winner of the coveted Associacao Paulista de Criticos de Arte Prize: an anthology of the stories of the tribes of the Amazon.
2 posts

Cuba on My Mind

by Román de la Campa

“Empathic and critical, connected and removed, knowing and bewildered.”—Raritan Review

2 posts
Homage to Chiapas

by Bill Weinberg
Vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy.
1 post
Pinochet and Me

by Marc Cooper
“Masterfully evokes some of the darkest chapters of US Cold War policy.”—Warren Beatty
4 posts
Building the New World

by Valerie Fraser
The progressive architecture of Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.

An Argentine Passion

Edited by Rosa Bosch, John King, et al.
The first major study of Maria Luisa Bemberg’s work.
In the Shadow of the State

by Nicola Miller
A vivid exploration of Spanish American intellectual life.
Mexican Postcards

by Carlos Monsiváis
A wide-ranging, vivacious portrait of contemporary Mexican life and culture.
1 post
Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas

Edited by Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stølen
The true picture of gender relations in Latin America.
2 posts

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