News of a Kidnapping
by Gabr Garcia Marquez


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This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women--all but one a journalist--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated... (read more)

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Fidel Castro a Biography New Edition
by Clive Foss


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Fidel Castro is a dynamic and charismatic leader, who has led Cuba through success and failures since 1959. Son of a rich landowner, he became a radical revolutionary who attempted to overthrow the government in 1956 with a tiny band of followers. Using... (read more)

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Letters of Love & Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five
by Nancy Morejon


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Introduced by Alice Walker and with a preface by Cuban poet Nancy Morejn, this book includes excerpts from diaries and letters from and to children, wives, and parents of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for "espionage,"providing a glimpse... (read more)

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Tania: Undercoverwith Che Guevara_in Bolivia
by Ulises Estrada


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For the first time, the story of "Tania the guerrilla"is told with tenderness and veracity by a key participant in the revolutionary movement in Latin America. Tania was born Hayde Tamara Bunke to German Jewish refugees in Argentina in 1937. Her family... (read more)

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The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850
by Cecilia Mendez


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""The Plebeian Republic" is an exciting and pathbreaking examination of state formation seen from a local perspective. Cecilia Mendez offers a convincing analysis of how people who are usually seen as 'acted upon' and reacting to political events develop... (read more)

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Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru
by Moises Arce


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Going beyond the usual state-centric approach to the study of the politics of neoliberal reform, Moises Arce emphasizes the importance of understanding the interaction between state reformers and collective actors in society. In... (read more)

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The Girondins of Chile: Reminiscences of an Eyewitness (Library of Latin America)
by Ben Vicuna Mackenna


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The Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicuna Mackenna,... (read more)

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Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico
by Olivier Debroise


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This book will become the most complete and useful English-language text on its subject, and will be the essential starting point for anyone wishing to incorporate Mexican material into a photographic survey course, to add photography to a course on... (read more)

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State and Society in Spanish America During the Age of Revolution (Latin American Silhouettes)
by Victor M Uribe Uran


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State and Society in Spanish America during the Age of Revolution calls into question the orthodox split of Latin American history into colonial and modern, arguing that this split obscures significant economic, social, and even political continuities... (read more)

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Resisting Brazil's Military Regime: An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto
by John W F Dulles


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Praised by his many admirers as a courageous and fearless defender of human rights, Heraclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of the regime of Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas. John W. F. Dulles chronicled... (read more)

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To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society
by Louis A Jr Perez


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Cuba's suicide rate is among the highest in the world. Pérez provides an illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba from colonial times to the present, showing how the act of suicide was loaded with meanings that changed as... (read more)

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Intimate Ties, Bitter Struggles: The United States and Latin American Since 1945 (Issues in the History of American Foreign Relations)
by Alan Mcpherson


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Over the last sixty years, the relationship between the United States and Latin America has been marred by ideological conflict, imbalances of power, and economic disparity. The U.S.-sponsored coup in Guatemala, the near lynching of Vice President... (read more)

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The Man Who Invented Fidel: Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times and the Creation of Castros Cuba
by Anthony Depalma


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This dramatic story of how Herbert L. Matthews, a "New York Times" reporter, helped Castro rise to power offers illuminating insight into the fraught history of Cuban-American relations and the precarious balance between truth and myth.... (read more)

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Women Legislators in Central America: Politics, Democracy, and Policy
by Miche Saint Germain


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During the years between 1980 and 1999, in the midst of war and economic crisis, a record number of women were elected to national legislatures in Central American republics. Can quantitative increases in the presence of elected women in Central America... (read more)

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Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (New World Studies)
by Faith Smith


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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-204) and index.... (read more)

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