Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America

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The Mantle of Struggle

By (author) Irving Andre
Foreword by David Austin
Categories: Biography: general

Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, under ...

Forecasts

By (author) Caroline E. Schuster
Illustrated by Enrique Bernardou & David Bueno
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: ethnoGRAPHIC

Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers ...

Héroïnes et tombeaux

Certains avancent que l’écrivain Ambrose Bierce, auteur du Dictionnaire du diable, est mort fusillé au Mexique en 1915 ; d’autres, qu’il aurait plutôt poursuivi son chemin jusqu’aux tréfonds ...

Testimonio

What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant ...

Boonoonoonous Hair

In this beautifully illustrated picture book a young girl learns to love her difficult-to-manage but electric, kinetic, bombastic, fantastic, twirly, whirly, curly, fuzzy, snappy, nappy, wavy, crazy, ...

In Defense of Small Producers

By (author) Marco Coscione
Categories: International relations

In an international geopolitical panorama where Northern countries are increasingly in crisis and where the most interesting alternatives to sustainable development are coming from the South, the Latin ...

Wheel and Come Again

Edited by Kwame Dawes
Categories: Poetry

The beat and language of reggae arose from the Jamaican countryside and the sidewalks of Kingston, but they’re basic for the poets represented in Wheel and Come Again. This remains true even though ...