Faces of Latin America 2nd Edition
This work portrays Latin America's peoples in their fight for a brighter future. It explores the region's economic crisis and the desecration of the environment. The author shows how injustice and conflict in the countryside have unleashed an exodus to the slums that encircle the major cities. He analyzes the roles of the main actors in the continent's history - both those in power and the poor majority who, through their social movements in the countryside and shanty towns, struggle for their vision of Latin America's future. This text explores various facets of life in Latin America, from industrialization, the environment, the left, women's issues, the role of the church and the question of land and ownership.
Published: 1997
Pages: 250
eBook: 9781899365807
Paperback: 9781899365104
| Acronyms and Glossary of Spanish and Portuguese words | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Map and Latin America in Figures | |||
| Introduction | |||
| Chapter 1: The Curse of Wealth | |||
| Chapter 2: Promised Land | |||
| Chapter 3: A Land in Flames | |||
| Chapter 4: Mean Streets | |||
| Chapter 5: Growing Pains | |||
| Chapter 6: Writing on the Wall | |||
| Chapter 7: No Fit State: The State and Politics | |||
| Chapter 8: Men at Arms: The Military | |||
| Chapter 9: The Left: Guerrillas, Social Movements and the Struggle for Change | |||
| Chapter 10: Women's Work: Gender and Politics | |||
| Chapter 11: Race Against Time: Indigenous Peoples | |||
| Chapter 12: Thy Kingdom Come: The Church | |||
| Conclusion | |||
| Further Reading |
Duncan Green
Duncan Green is the author of From Poverty to Power and Oxfam GB’s Senior Strategic Adviser. He was Oxfam’s Head of Research from 2004-12. From Poverty to Power contains the accumulated knowledge of 25 years spent researching and writing about reducing poverty and combating injustice and, as he says, trying to “do justice to the complexity of the world, while still believing there is a story about how it can be changed for the better.”
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