Latino Politics

"Lo intenté mucho y no conseguí una explicación. Después de 40 días de búsqueda por parte de los militares mejor entrenados del mundo en supervivencia y rastreo de jungla, los cuatro niños vinieron a aparecer a escasos diez metros del lugar donde un chamán indígena dijo que estarían. Todo ocurrió bajo la influencia del yagé, una bebida sagrada que, de acuerdo con las culturas amazónicas, cura los males y brinda un sueño visionario que por unos minutos permite internarse en el fondo de la mente o viajar con libertad en el espacio y el tiempo."

Desde la emoción del momento de haber sido escogido como uno de los 155 convencionales que escribirían la nueva Constitución chilena, hasta el aprendizaje de cómo funciona, internamente, aquello que llaman “política”. El día a día de la convención constitucional es narrado sin tapujos por el escritor Jorge Baradit, y en su relato reconoce cada yerro, cada exceso de entusiasmo, cada dificultad que se presentó pero, también, el arduo trabajo realizado para conseguir de manera excepcional la primera Constitución redactada por ciudadanos comunes y corrientes.

O livro é resultado de pesquisa doutoral realizada pelo autor junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito pela Universidade Estácio de Sá. Partindo da perspectiva de Roger Myerson que associa a forma federativa estatal à democracia em países em transição democrática, o autor realiza um estudo do processo centralizador ocorrido no Brasil mediante o uso abusivo do processo de emendamento constitucional.

El relato de cómo Jorge Ramos confrontó y desenmascaró a Nicolás Maduro ante las cámaras, y todo lo que ocurrió antes y después de la entrevista. El 25 de febrero de 2019, apoyado por su equipo de Univision, Jorge Ramos realizó una entrevista —preparada minuciosamente— a Nicolás Maduro.

Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture‚ yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rather than a longstanding racial group. In Inventing Latinos‚ Laura Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making‚ unmaking‚ and remaking of Latino identity that has spanned centuries‚ leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today.

Em seu quarto livro publicado pela Benvirá, Celso Amorim relata suas experiências como chanceler no trato das relações do Brasil com seus vizinhos da América do Sul. O autor utilizou, como eixo da narrativa, anotações feitas à época dos acontecimentos, complementando-as com referências a documentos oficiais e informações de outras fontes.

"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.

The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters—a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator—whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror.

In the early 19th century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hoped would dominate the American hemisphere. From pulsing port cities to Midwestern farms and Southern plantations, an adolescent nation hailed Latin America's independence movements as glorious tropical reprises of 1776.

In this compelling new book, relying on original reporting from the most dangerous corners of Rio to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Dave Zirin examines how sports and politics are colliding in remarkable fashion in Brazil, opening up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports.

The crash of a U.S. reconnaissance plane into the Colombian jungle on February 13, 2003, set off a series of events that, five years later, would bring three South American countries on a collision course toward war, pit a giant government contractor against its employer - the U.S. government - and catapult a 40-year-old guerrilla army to the international stage as one of the most active and successful terrorist organizations in the world.

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.

The impact of colonialism, generational trauma, and individual trauma is often disregarded in the Latinx community. This pioneering guide addresses this trauma and takes Latinx readers on a journey of healing and liberation.. It explores what it means to have been systematically oppressed, how it impacts us, and how to change it. In doing so, this book challenges stereotypes, unravels the shame-based narratives around Latinx mental health, and refocuses the conversation around cultural empowerment, awareness, and transformation.

In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the 21st century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A US-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet Bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother.

The arguments are concise, and the information is overwhelming. The first two lectures examine the persistent and largely invariant features of foreign policy, the overall framework of order. The third discusses Central America and its foreign policy pattern. The fourth looks at national security and the arms race. And the fifth examines US domestic policy.

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.

Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her wherever she went, even kidnapping him and running off to South America after his straitlaced father won a long and bitter custody fight.

For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a state whose anti-immigrant laws are the most stringent in the nation. And Arizona has the highest number of migrant deaths. Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a young girl from El Salvador who was left to die alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains.

In 1965, following his mother's death, Infante returns to Cuba from Brussels, where he is employed as a cultural attaché at the Cuban embassy. When a few days later his permission to return to Europe is revoked, Infante begins a period of suspicion, uncertainty, and disillusion. Unable to leave the country, denied access to party officials, yet still receiving checks for his work in Belgium, Infante discovers the reality of Cuba under Fidel Castro.

In a series of 10 essays, spanning five centuries of history, beginning with the conquest of Mexico by Hermán Cortés and ending in 1992 San Francisco, Rodriguez explores the conflicts of race, religion, and cultural identity for Mexican-Americans across the landscape of his beloved California.