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  • The New Brazil

    Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy

    by Raúl Zibechi ...
    Translated by Ramor Ryan ...
    In the midst of a rapidly shifting global economy, Brazil has emerged as a powerful new player on the geopolitical stage. Against all odds, the Latin American nation managed, in just three years, to repay a 2002 $15.5 billion IMF bailout loan thanks to aggressive economic restructuring and a series of alliances that have placed it at the center of political and economic power in the region.From ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dispersing Power

    Social Movements as Anti-State Forces

    by Raúl Zibechi ...
    Translated by Ramor Ryan ...
    Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes with questions, questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid of capitalism? How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the role of the state and what are the possibilities of changing society through anti-state movements?... the most important practical ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Self-Defense in Mexico

    Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars

    by Luis Hernández Navarro ...
    Translated by Ramor Ryan ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence. Luis Hernández Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, offers a riveting investigation of these armed self-defense groups that sprang up around the time of the 1994 Zapatista ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia

    by Martín Sivak ...
    The fascinating Bolivian president Evo Morales is vying with the brash and provocative leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, to be the most influential figure in South American politics today. Since coming into office four years ago, Morales has been intensely critical of the United States, speaking out against the drug war at the United Nations and implementing socialist programs at home, including ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mexico

    A 500-Year History

    by Paul Gillingham ...
    A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2025From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countriesAt the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Paul Gillingham writes, from its outset “Mexico was more profoundly, globally hybrid than anywhere else ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • A Narco History

    How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"

    by Carmen Boullosa, Mike Wallace ...
    The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs ... Read more

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  • Chicano Movement For Beginners

    by Maceo Montoya ...
    Series series For Beginners
    As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to shed light on the multifaceted civil rights struggle known as “El Movimiento” that galvanized the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Colombia and the United States

    War, Unrest and Destabilization

    by Mario A. Murillo ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid" continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia. Beginning with a brief history of Colombia, Murillo analyzes the complex forces driving Colombia's current ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Drug War Capitalism

    by Dawn Paley ...
    Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill our prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism's woes, cracking open new ... Read more

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  • Dictatorship in South America

    by Jerry Dávila ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin AmericaExamines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military ... Read more

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  • History of Guatemala

    The Fascinating Story of the Land of the Quetzal

    by Pearson Laufer ...
    "History of Guatemala: The Fascinating Story of the Land of the Quetzal" is a captivating journey through the complex and intriguing history of Guatemala. From the ancient Maya civilizations to the modern-day struggles and triumphs, this book delves into the fascinating story of the Land of the Quetzal.With meticulous research and engaging narrative, this book explores the cultural, social, and ... Read more

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  • Opening Mexico

    The Making of a Democracy

    by Julia Preston, Samuel Dillon ...
    Two Pulitzer Prize–winning reporters deliver "a gripping and insightful history of Mexico's democratic transition" (Daniel Kurtz Phelan, The Washington Post ).Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans ... Read more

    $12.99 USD