Latin American Heroes

Written by Jerome Adams

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 13, 1993
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-38384-6 (0-345-38384-2)

These profiles of twenty-three history makers offer a unique view of Latin America through the eyes of men and women who devoted their lives to their countries, and to the freedom of their people. These fascinating mini-biographies are a straightforward and thoroughly researched biographical reference that amplifies some of the most... Read more >

Cuba Confidential
Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
Written by Ann Louise Bardach

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72052-6 (0-385-72052-1)

From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award-winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring... Read more >

The Rastafarians
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Written by Leonard Barrett

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: December 12, 1997
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1039-6 (0-8070-1039-1)

The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to... Read more >

The Country Under My Skin
A Memoir of Love and War
Written by Gioconda Belli

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3216-7 (1-4000-3216-4)

An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution.

Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and... Read more >

El pais bajo mi piel

Written by Gioconda Belli

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3439-0 (1-4000-3439-6)

An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution.

Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and... Read more >

Manana Forever?
Mexico and the Mexicans
Written by Jorge G. Castaneda

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70394-2 (0-375-70394-2)

In this shrewd and fascinating book, the renowned scholar and former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda sheds much light on the puzzling paradoxes of politics and culture of modern Mexico.

Here’s a nation of 110 million that has an ambivalent and complicated relationship with the United States yet is host to more... Read more >

Manana Forever?
Mexico and the Mexicans
Written by Jorge G. Castaneda

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40424-5 (0-375-40424-4)

Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as victims, but also love victims? And why, though the Mexican people traditionally avoid conflict, is there so much violence in a country where... Read more >

Utopia Unarmed
The Latin American Left After the Cold War
Written by Jorge G. Castaneda

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 2, 1994
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75141-0 (0-679-75141-6)

In this insightful analysis of the Latin American left, Castañeda shows why hostility and misunderstanding between the left and the U.S. have endured since the 1920s, and he outlines changes that are taking place today likely to produce a coexistence with the United States.

With the collapse of Soviet communism, the... Read more >

Coyotes
A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants
Written by Ted Conover

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1987
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-75518-2 (0-394-75518-9)

To discover what becomes of Mexicans who come illegally to the United States, Conover disguised himself as an illegal alien, traveling and working across America for more than a year. This is the chronicle of his journey.

"Ted Conover lived the bizarre life of the Mexican illegals.  Theirs is a subterrestrial world... Read more >

The Massacre at El Mozote

Written by Mark Danner

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 5, 1994
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75525-8 (0-679-75525-X)

In December of 1981, soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women, and children, often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre--and photographs of its victims--appeared in the United States, the Reagan administration dismissed them as propaganda... Read more >

Notes From the Last Testament
The Struggle for Haiti
Written by Michael Deibert
Prologue by Ti Goave
Introduction by Raoul Peck

Format: Trade Paperback, 478 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-697-1 (1-58322-697-4)

Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher, Deibert traces the rupturing of the social-democratic coalition that originally brought Aristide to power... Read more >

Salvador

Written by Joan Didion

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75183-0 (0-679-75183-1)

Didion turns her powers of observation to El Salvador in the early 1980s, delivering a devastating anatomy of that country’s particular brand of terror—its mechanisms, rationales, and its intimate relation to our own country’s foreign policy. As Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps; interviews a puppet president; and considers the... Read more >

My Name is Victoria
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Written by Victoria Donda
Translated by Magda Bolin

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-404-7 (1-59051-404-1)

Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history–thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the... Read more >

Hard Line
Life and Death on the US-Mexico Border
Written by Ken Ellingwood

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3367-6 (1-4000-3367-5)

The Southwestern border is one of the most fascinating places in America, a region of rugged beauty and small communities that coexist across the international line. In the past decade, the area has also become deadly as illegal immigration has shifted into some of the harshest territory on the continent, reshaping... Read more >

Young Che
Memories of Che Guevara by His Father
Written by Ernesto Guevara Lynch

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39044-8 (0-307-39044-6)

“I had prepared a life plan that included ten years of wandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in the past, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years of wandering might grow longer . . . but it will now be of an entirely different... Read more >

The Heart That Bleeds
Latin America Now
Written by Alma Guillermoprieto

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 28, 1995
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75795-5 (0-679-75795-3)

In this collection of thirteen essays Guillermoprieto offers a portrait of the state of Latin America today, discussing topics ranging from modernity and cultural fragmentation in Mexico and the end of Sandinista rule in Nicaragua, to the Shining Path in Peru, evangelicalism in Brazil, and Panama in the aftermath of the... Read more >

Looking for History
Dispatches from Latin America
Written by Alma Guillermoprieto

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72582-1 (0-375-72582-2)

In the tradition of Joan Didion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryzsard Kapucinski comes a collection of essays and reportage by Alma Guillermoprieto, perhaps the most highly regarded writer on Latin America.

Guillermoprieto, who contributes regularly to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, explores the three Latin American... Read more >

Savages

Written by Joe Kane

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74019-3 (0-679-74019-8)

In this impressive, funny and moving work, Joe Kane tells the story of the Huaorani, a tribe living in the deepest part of the Amazonian rain forest in Ecuador. The Huaorani have only in the last generation been exposed to such items as the wristwatch. But the modern world is reaching... Read more >

Fidel
An Illustrated Biography of Fidel Castro
Written by Nestor Kohan
Illustrated by Nahuel Scherma and Miracle Jones
Translated by Elise Buchman

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-782-4 (1-58322-782-2)

In the United States, ninety miles from Cuban shores, tempers flare on the subject of Fidel Castro: some say he is a liberator, some say a dictator. In Fidel, Nestor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma present one of the towering figures of the twentieth-century as he is seen by Latin Americans: as... Read more >

Fidel

Written by Nestor Kohan
Illustrated by Nahuel Scherma and Miracle Jones

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Siete Cuentos
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-783-1 (1-58322-783-0)

En los Estados Unidos, a noventa millas de las costas cubanas, el tema de Fidel Castro enciende a la gente: algunos dicen que es un dictador, otros dicen que es un libertador. En Fidel, Néstor Kohan y Nahuel Scherma presentan a una de las figuras sobresalientes del siglo veinte desde la... Read more >

Cutting for Sign

Written by Willia Langewiesche

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 30, 1995
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75963-8 (0-679-75963-8)

The border between the United States and Mexico extends 1,951 miles. Among the people who live along it are a migrant laborer huddled in a makeshift camp, a Chicano cowpuncher, a Pima Indian who makes his living tracking drug smugglers across the desert, and the millions crowded along the border in... Read more >

Beyond Bogota
Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia
Written by Garry Leech

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6148-0 (0-8070-6148-4)

Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia. Unlike other Western reporters, most of whom rarely leave Bogotá, Leech learns the truth about conflicts and the U.S. war on drugs directly from the source: farmers, male and female guerrillas... Read more >

Clandestine in Chile
The Adventures of Miguel Littin
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Preface by Francisco Goldman
Translated by Asa Zatz

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59017-340-4 (1-59017-340-6)

In 1973, the portly, dark-haired, bearded film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende, replacing it with the rule of General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s cruel reign was to last some seventeen years, during which Chile was turned into a... Read more >

The Other Side
Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond
Written by Ruben Martinez

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 4, 1993
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74591-4 (0-679-74591-2)

"The Other Side" used to be the name that Mexicans and Central Americans gave to California and points north. As envisioned by Martinez in this work of cultural reportage and personal memoir, "the other side" designates other frontiers as well. Whether he is writing about graffiti  writers in L.A. or guerrillas in... Read more >

The Battle of Venezuela

Written by Michael McCaughan

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: June 7, 2005
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-680-3 (1-58322-680-X)

In August 2004, the Venezuelan public came out in record numbers to deliver an overwhelming vote of confidence. After many attempts to unseat him, Hugo Chåvez, the former military man who took the country first by coup and then by ballot, again emerged as the people’s choice. It was, in his... Read more >