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Lorena Pena achieved the rank of FMLN comandante during the civil war against the US-sponsored military regime in the 1980s. These "fragments from her life," as she describes this book, are offered as a tribute to the women of E read more
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In this extended interview, the vice president of Bolivia, lvaro Garc a Linera, outlines his country’s attempt to chart a new, independent course that prioritizes social justice, sovereignty, and the rights of the indigenous majority.
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This book explains events in Bolivia today since the 2006 election of Evo Morales, the first indigenous president in the history of Latin America, as his government attempts to set itself a new, independent course. It reviews the crisis provoked by the read more
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Today, with left-wing and progressive forces running many governments throughout the continent, a diverse range of political commentators, activists, and academics debate here which way forward for Latin America. Can urgently needed social change be ac read more
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Karl Marx (1818-1883) has been held responsible for many of the social upheavals of the 20th century. Born in Germany, Marx lived most of his life in exile in London. He transformed revolutionary theory, read more
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Fidel Castro discusses Barack Obama, the eleventh US president to confront the reality of the Cuban revolution, reviewing a wide range of political issues includi read more
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Here at last is the first volume in Fidel Castro's long-awaited memoir, a project he has been working on since he retired from public office in 2006.
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This new anthology, including many previously unpublished articles, brings together Che Guevara's writings on philosophy and politics, revealing him as one of the great intellectuals and thinkers of the twentieth century. It includes the list read more
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María del Carmen Ariet García (editor) is the coordinator of the Che Guevara Studies Center (Havana) and one of the leading world authorities on Che Guevara’s life and work.
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The French Revolution and the ideas of liberty, equality, and fraternity remain the philosophical foundation of modern society. This short history of the 1789 read more
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The 1910 Mexican Revolution led by Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa was one of the great social uprisings when peasants and oppressed classes engaged in an un read more
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Ligia Trujillo Aldama (1933) is an educationalist and was active in the underground movement prior to the revolution. She founded the Pedagogical Institute of Latin America and the Caribbean and has coll read more
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"Within the revolution, everything; against the revolution, nothing." This was the catchphrase of the historic 1961 meeting of Cuban artists and intelle read more
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Roque Dalton was El Salvador's most prominent poet and intellectual and an authority on the history and politics of Central America. In read more
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José Luis Merino (nom de guerre, Ramiro Vázquez) began his political involvement early as a young activist in the labor movement. As one of the military leaders of the FMLN guerrilla force, he read more
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From the pre-Hispanic period through to Cuba's struggle to survive after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro's stepping down in 2008, this book (in French) offers an overview of the history and politics of the tiny Caribbean island so oft read more
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Roberto Regalado, a well-respected authority on Latin American politics, reviews the ?pink tide" of leftist and progressive governments elected over the last decade, from Venezuela to Argentina. He now considers whether these governments are capable of read more
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Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo was nominated as a Time magazine Person of the Year 2011. With the explosion of student protests for equal access to education, her voice became internationally recognized as representing the new wave of reb read more
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One of the leading poets of his time, Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda is not so well known for his political activism and his period as a Chilean senator (1945?48). This book contains some of his most eloquent political speeches, including his fa read more
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