Latino Politics

Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized families in the United States. This is the story of their coming-of-age, which is beset by violence—the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the drug trade. In Kensington, eighteenth birthdays are not rites of passage but statistical miracles.

Una de las claves para el éxito de AMLO fueron las cuestionables alianzas que impulsaron la campaña del hoy presidente. Aunque para los seguidores más fieles de su partido se vendió como un demócrata firmemente anclado en la izquierda, los hechos lo han revelado como un populista de la más conservadora derecha, inspirado en el priismo autoritario. Para Bartra, esto significa sólo una cosa: la así autonombrada «Cuarta Transformación» no es sino un retroceso a una etapa de nuestra historia política que parecía ya superada.

El Che Guevara escribió este libro luego del triunfo de la revolución en Cuba con el objeto de generar un breve manual para extender la revolución a otros países del mundo. A través de los años se ha convertido en referente para enfrentar diversos problemas, hasta estrategias de Marketing.

En Pensar Medio Oriente, Maruan Soto Antaki plantea preguntas esenciales para entender el mundo árabe(¿arabe es sinónimo de islámico? ¿Es indisociable el Islam del terrorismo? ¿Qué tan profundas son las raíces de los conflictos?) Ahora, centra su atención en un ámbito más cercano: México. Para entender Medio Oriente, debíamos dirigir nuestra mirada al lenguaje, pues ahí está el corazón de la cultura árabe. En el caso de México, hay que hacer lo mismo.

Recuperando el título de un pequeño cuento con el que la puertorriqueña Rosario Ferré analizó la misoginia literaria en los años noventa, "El coloquio de las perras" pretende ser un homenaje a las escritoras hispanohablantes que sortearon todo tipo de obstáculos para hacer su literatura. Desde populares figuras como Elena Garro, Gabriela Mistral o Alejandra Pizarnik hasta otras más desconocidas como Alcira Soust Scaffo, Agustina González López o María Emilia Cornejo, la periodista y poeta Luna Miguel entabla una conversación llena de ladridos con una docena de mujeres...

On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and understand the motives behind such a brutal act, this volume pinpoints the sensational crime as a watershed moment in Guatemalan history that radically changed the nature of justice and the established social order.

Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys and young men of color in schools-but what about the politics of empowerment and inclusion? In Good Boys, Bad Hombres, Michael V. Singh focuses on this aspect of youth control in schools, asking on whose terms a positive Latino manhood gets to be envisioned.

Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and '90s. A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to his hometown to study how inner-city young Latino and African American boys develop their sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing. Punished examines the difficult lives of these young men.

A louca e tragicômica história dos nossos vizinhos contada no estilo único do jornalista Ariel Palacios. Com sua verve inconfundível e seu talento notável para a reportagem que se tornaram famosos na TV e no rádio, Ariel Palacios, correspondente da GloboNews e apresentador da CBN, monta um rico e divertidíssimo mosaico dos países que compõem a América Latina, reunindo toda a gama de absurdos, abusos, loucuras e atos nonsense protagonizados por monarcas, ditadores, presidentes e até mesmo líderes religiosos com alguns (ou muitos) parafusos a menos.

La conversación perdida entre dos Premios Nobel, dos de los máximos exponentes de la literatura universal.

Manual de etiqueta para el mexicano de hoy—o para el audaz viajero—, Viaje al centro de mi tierra lo mismo explora conductas sociales (los microbuses como armas de destrucción masiva, los desfiguros de la política) que el albur, las piruetas y los retortijones de las hablas nacionales; va de los bajos fondos de la nota roja (un futbolista baleado en un bar-bar, el asesinato de dos mini luchadores a manos de unas sexoservidoras) a la épica batalla contra el virus de la influenza.

As the voting public continues to diversify across the United States, political candidates, and particularly white candidates, increasingly recognize the importance of making appeals to voters who do not look like themselves. As history has shown, this has been accomplished with varying degrees of success. During the 2016 election, for example, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigned vociferously among Latino voters in Nevada's early primary, where 19 percent of the Democratic caucus consisted of Latinos.

In Breaking In, veteran journalist Joan Biskupic tells the story of how two forces providentially merged - the large ambitions of a talented Puerto Rican girl raised in the projects in the Bronx and the increasing political presence of Hispanics, from California to Texas, from Florida to the Northeast - resulting in a historical appointment. And this is not just a tale about breaking barriers as a Puerto Rican. It's about breaking barriers as a justice.

Contar la verdad de Venezuela, un ejercicio imprescindible para hacer justicia al ejemplo del pueblo venezolano, pero también para entender qué implica en el actual momento histórico tratar de hacer una revolución.

"Los mexicanos tienen que convencerse de que no solamente son generadores de mano de obra", dice el autor de este ensayo político. Se trata de una mirada crítica a los mexicanos y a la forma en la que enfrentan su realidad como nación. El autor, conocido como "El Mexicano Desconocido", es un mexicano más que enfrenta a sus compatriotas "con su naturaleza mentirosa", la transformación de las familias mexicanas y los sentimientos encontrados que despierta México entre sus ciudadanos.

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they refuse to learn English to questions of just how "American" they actually are.

Chávez is one of the most divisive and controversial political figures in Latin American history. He has been in power since 1999 and is South America's longest serving head of state. The leader of the movement towards 21st century socialism, Chávez has sought to bring socialist reform to Venezuela through what he calls the Bolivarian Revolution. His goal has been to shift power from the nation's traditional oligarchy to the neglected poor.

Fidel Castro is one of the most influential and controversial men of the last 50 years, equally revered and reviled by people across the globe. To the West Castro has long been one of the prominent faces of Communism and the main reason Cuba has been ostracized by many liberal democracies, particularly the United States.

Could it be that for the first time in history, the United States needs Latin America more than the other way round? Since the early 1800s, the United States regarded the region as its backyard, but in the past decade South Americas leaders have increasingly snubbed US efforts to persuade them to adopt free-market economics and sign trade agreements. While Washington has been distracted by military campaigns elsewhere, rivals such as China, Russia, and Iran have expanded their clout in Latin America.

His parents, village, and Panama Canal Zone events prepared him. Above and beyond his tribulations, this Afro-Latino Caribbean man did not allow racism to stop his smile, resolve, or journey forward. Walk with him through his eyes.