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One Day in December
Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution. Although not as well known in the English-speaking world as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Sánchez played a pivotal role in launching the...
Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror
Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result...
Silent Revolution
"Superb. Combining unassailable analysis with a thorough grasp of economic and political trends, Duncan Green convincingly argues that the region is headed for even greater tragedy unless people move...
Notes on Puerto Rican Revolution
This essay on Puerto Rico analyzes the deepening crisis in American capitalism and how it inevitably affects Puerto Rico. Essentially, Lewis asks and seeks to answer three questions: What is the...
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
"Guevara left behind him writing that will endure among the best of revolutionary literature . . . Not only is this book a step-by-step account of the revolution-within-a-revolution, but it is also...
Out of the Shadows
Since the early 1970s women across South America have been uniting to confont the brutality and repression of military rule. In Out of the Shadows, author Jo Fisher interviews women in Argentina, Chile,...
The Poor and the Powerless
Argues that another form of development by the poor and for the poor is not only possible but necessary.
The Intellectual Roots of Independence
Explores the impact of colonial domination and defends Puerto Rican anti-imperialist struggles.
Sugarmill
This extraordinary work deserves to be called monumental for its scrupulous and exhaustive analysis of the development of the sugar industry in Cuba, for the imposing originality of its approach,...
Inside the Monster
Explores the emergent threat of U.S. imperialism (1881 to 1895).
The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism Vol. 2
This volume covers the imposition of U.S. domination over Cuba through the Platt Amendment, which marks the beginning of U.S. neocolonialism.
The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism Vol. 1
Argues that the Cuban nation was a central protagonist in the conflict rather than a passive victim of a conflict between great powers.
We, the Puerto Rican People
Silén restores to his people their history, stolen from them along with their land and independence.
Latin America and Underdevelopment
In his second book, Andre Gunder Frank expands on the theme presented in his influential study Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. It is the colonial structure of world capitalism,...
Puerto Rico
Details the history of modern Puerto Rico, advancing independence and socialism as the answer to the Puerto Rican tragedy.