Latin America Bureau
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We Are Millions
Neo-liberalism has claimed another victim: Argentina. Since the 1970s, a brutal transference of resources from the poor to the rich has taken place here. The wealthy have exploited the tools of neo-liberalism to make fast profits for themselves and international interests without a thought for the c...
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Women and Social Movements in Latin America
Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. This comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil and Chile. For each country the...
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State Repression and the Struggles for Memory
Opening the newspapers in South America at the beginning of the 21st century can feel like being caught in static time: so many of the contemporary news stories point to the persistence of a past which is definitely not "over". The attempts to try Pinochet, the continuing searches for the disappeare...
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Cuba the Test of Time
As Cuba enters its fourth decade of revolution, much has been achieved in health, education and culture. Yet, economic and political obstacles to the island’s development remain. US-orchestrated embargo and destabilisation, together with frequent policy switches, have created a society where nobody...
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We will not Dance on our Grandparents' Tombs
Kintto Lucas, Dinah Livingstone
Although "levantamientos indigenas" (Indian uprisings) have taken place for 500 years, the contemporary indigenous movement in Latin American was signaled by mobilizations in Ecuador, the first in 1990, as resistance to celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' "discovery" of the Americas....
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True Crimes
Rodolfo Walsh was a writer of crime novels, a tireless investigative journalist who uncovered real political crimes, an instant historian of a turbulent and violent era in Argentinian and Latin American politics. He was in Cuba in 1960, participating in setting up the first revolutionary press servi...
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Mexico Inside Out
Mexico is a country of upheavals: it's not only a land of volcanoes and earthquakes, but historically it has seen empires rise and fall, and revolutions bring dramatic changes to its society. This short book offers an up-to-date analysis of all aspects of life in Mexico today. It includes a look at...
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The Future of Memory
Children experience the world in vivid and indelible ways. For those who had to suffer the reality of the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983), the memories of that time remain powerfully present. The Future of Memory is made up of almost thirty testimonies, which between them provide a uni...
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Deeper than Debt
An introduction to the history and current implications of the debt crisis, which positions debt in the wider context of globalisation and development. Deeper than Debt brings together a wide range of viewpoints to discuss the effects of economic globalisation on the lives of the poor majority in de...
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King Sugar
The Caribbean's history is inseparable from sugar, and the crop is still an important feature in the economics of many islands, from Cuba to Barbados. In Jamaica entire communities depend on the sugar industry, earning a precarious living on old-fashioned plantations. What is life like on a sugar pl...