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The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Elisa Burgos Debray Publisher Comments Illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman, I, Rigoberta Menchu recounts experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today.... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Staff Pick Che Guevara's face can seem ubiquitous these days. Knowing very little about him, I decided to pick up this rather hefty biography by Jon Lee Anderson. I was planning on scanning the 832-page book for the highlights, but after only twenty pages I was... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas by Auro Levins Morales Publisher Comments Full of medical folklore and healing tales, Remedios presents the history of the many women-and cultures-who have met at the crossroads of the islands of Puerto Rico. Beginning with the First Mother in sub-Saharan Africa more than 200,000 years ago... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings Subcumandante Insurgente Marcos by Subcomandant Marcos Publisher Comments In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the enigmatic Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated... (read more) List Price $25.75 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Conquest of New Spain by B Diaz Del Castillo Publisher Comments Fifty years after the startling defeat of the Aztecs by Hernán Cortés and his small band of adventurers, Díaz writes a magnificent account on his experience as a soldier in CortésÆs army.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T J English Publisher Comments To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles Lucky Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob--with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban dictator... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Latin America, the Penguin (Penguin History) by Edwin Williamson Publisher Comments Traces 500 years of history from the time of Columbus to the present day. "An excellent general history...clear in its narrative, interesting in its analysis and consistently inteliigent in its judgements" Anthony McFarlane in "The Times Higher Education... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Human Rights Series #6: An Absence of Shadows by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments This collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin, noted poet and editor, is presented in both Spanish and English. Published to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights, this book joins two of Agosin's most acclaimed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.46 Used - Trade Paper 
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Gracias!: A Latin American Journal by Henri J M Nouwen Publisher Comments In this journal of his travels in Bolivia and Peru, Nouwen ponders the presence of God in the poor, the challenge of a persecuted church, the relation between faith and justice, and his own struggle to discern the path along which God is calling him... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron by Nicholas Fraser Publisher Comments The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Peron being hidden away by nervous politicians... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Amazonia: The Land, the Wildlife, the River, the People by Alfonso Jr Capelas Synopsis A panoramic look at Earth's most diverse ecosystem. The Amazon river is fed by 1,000 named tributaries and as many anonymous ones. The river system spans the South American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to within 100 miles of the Pacific and drains... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Hardcover
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Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado by Elvia Alvarado Publisher Comments "Elvia Alvarado tells the story of her life and the life of the people of Honduras. Read it and understand the struggle against tyranny of the poor. Read it and act."--Alice... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire Publisher Comments This haunting memoir of the Cuban Revolution, seen through the eyes of a small boy, is the heartbreaking story of the author's privileged childhood in pre-Revolution Havana, and how he lost everything, including his father.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara, and Other Captured Documents by Daniel James Synopsis These uncensored and unabridged diaries were written in 1966 and 1967 when Che Guevara was attempting to establish a guerilla insurrectionary movement in Bolivia. There are also diaries of his three closest lieutenants and photographs taken by the Cuban... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle by Mark Gonsalves Publisher Comments On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors--Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell--crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood with automatic rifles pointing at... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier by Richard W Slatta Publisher Comments Although as much romanticized as the American cowboy, the Argentine gaucho lived a persecuted, marginal existence, beleaguered by mandatory passports, vagrancy laws, and forced military service. The story of this nineteenth-century migratory ranch hand... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Buried Secrets : Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala (04 Edition) by Victoria Sanford Publisher Comments "Buried Secrets" chronicles the journey of Maya survivors of genocidal violence in Guatemala as they seek truth, justice, and community healing.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Lords of Palenque by Victor Perera Synopsis The Last Lords of Lalenque is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Naha in southern Mexico. A community of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition, the Lacandones may nevertheless be... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba- And Then Lost It to the Revolution by T J English Publisher Comments In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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