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An examination of the long-ignored vicious side to the legend of Brazilian President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, this is the tale uncovered by the first civilian to spend fourteen months in the secret police archives of Rio de Janeiro. Rose has utilized new eyewitness testimony and insider information in offering explanations to several events that proved pivotal in Brazil during the 1930s and 1940s. During Vargas's tenure, the quality and quantity of human rights abuses reached unprecedented heights. Violence, as a means of coercing the public, was evident in all sectors of the security apparatus. Several tools of torture developed during the hunt for communists are still in use today. ... Read more

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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 service in Latin America, "Prensa Latina", when a coded telex arrived in their offices by mistake. After sleepless nights and with one cryptography manual, Walsh deciphered the plans for the US invasion of Cuba being planned in Guatemala by the CIA. Walsh was active in the Montonero guerrilla in Argentina, co-ordinating information and intelligence work. In that capacity he made public the existence of ESMA, the Naval Mechanics School which was the main military torture centre. In his own name he wrote an Open Letter to the Military Junta, a year from the coup and a day before his death, denouncing the dirty war. He was gunned down in the streets of Buenos Aires by a military death squad. This is an account of Rudolfo Walsh's life. It includes extended excerpts from his varied writings. ... Read more

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Immigration is the driving force behind a mostsignificant social transformation taking place in U.S. society at theend of the millennium.Crossings brings together twelve original andinterdisciplinary essays by leading scholars from both sides of theborder to examine the most significant aspect of the new immigration:Mexican immigration to the United States.In 1990, there were morelegal immigrants from Mexico than from all of Europe combined.Sevenmillion Mexican immigrants now reside in the United States, about athird of its total foreign-born population.Crossings concludes thatthis wave of immigration is a long term phenomenon that will continueto bind the two nations into the next century. ... Read more

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A lot of good information
I did a presentation about this book in the local library. This is a good book with a lot of information about many different topics related to the Hispanic community in the U.S. Note, however, that the book was published in 1998. Therefore, most of the data is outdated. Therefore, since it is a book that is very heavy in presenting data, some on the information might not be as useful as you might want. The book is good to give you a comprehensive idea of Mexican immigration issues, but to to be used a a source for current works.

excellent. a comprehensive and in depth examination
Crossing examines mexican immigration from the most important angle ... Read more

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This study focuses on a discussion of the evolution of Argentine demographic policy as expressed in the dictum "to govern is to populate" and its impact on the role of the Afro-Argentine in an historical context. The Afro-Argentine role in Argentine culture is presented as part of the elite-defined culture, the liberal elites' views of the Afro-Argentine and the aftermath of Juan Manuel de Rosas with its changes to the cultural images of the Afro-Argentine. In contrast, the Afro-Argentine is also presented as part of the Argentine popular creole culture within a construct that discusses the issue of how site-specific Argentine culture is, and the impact of site definitions on the cultural contributions of the Afro-Argentine. Creole popular cultural expressions of the Puppet Theatre, the theatre, and the circus highlight the conflicts between immigrant and creole where the Agro-Argentine is clearly defined as a creole and not as a separate cultural entity. ... Read more

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Noted filmmaker Jesús Salvador Treviño participated in and documented the most important events in the Mexican American civil rights movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's: the farm workers' strikes and boycotts, the Los Angeles school walk-outs, the Chicano Youth Conference in Denver, the New Mexico land grant movement, the Chicano moratorium against the Vietnam War, the founding of the La Raza Unida Party, and the first incursion of Latinos in the media. Coming of age during the turmoil of the sixties, Treviño was on the spot to record the struggles to organize students and workers into the largest social and political movements in the history of Latino communities in the United States.

As important as his documentation of historical events is his self-reflection and chronicling of how these events helped to shape his own personality and mission as one of the most renowned Latino filmmakers. Treviño's beautifully written memoir is fascinating for its detail, insight, and heretofore undisclosed reports from behind the scenes by a participant and observer who is able to strike the balance between personal reflection and reportage. ... Read more

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A must for young Chicanos
Names and stories about so called "Role Models" fall short in front of this personal memoirs of Jesus Salvador Trevino.
This book is a great collection of personal experiences and success in a society where not being "white" means to swim against the current.
I highly recommend it for teachers to share with their students.
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The Maya Indian peoples of Chiapas had been mobilizing politically for years before the Zapatista rebellion that brought them to international attention. This authoritative volume explores the different ways that Indians across Chiapas have carved out autonomous cultural and political spaces in their diverse communities and regions. Offering a consistent and cohesive vision of the complex evolution of a region and its many cultures and histories, this work is a fundamental source for understanding key issues in nation building. In a unique collaboration, the book brings together recognized authorities who have worked in Chiapas for decades, many linking scholarship with social and political activism. Their combined perspectives, many previously unavailable in English, make this volume the most authoritative, richly detailed, and authentic work available on the people behind the Zapatista movement. ... Read more

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Understanding the Zapatistas
Jan Rus and company have compiled some well-researched articles by scholars who have devoted many years living with and studying indigenous communities in Chiapas.
This book is a well-organized anthropological-historical analysis of the emergence of the Zapatista rebellion and the response by the different indigenous groups who are seeking to develop their identity and their communities in a changing Mexico. An excellent introduction and well-written articles make this text essential for a balancedand insightful understanding of the groups seeking autonomy and democracy in Chiapas and Mexico. ... Read more

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Deeper insight into Ecuador and Indigenous issues of Latin America
This book fills a void in Latin American research.Little has been written about Ecuador compared to Peru, Guatemala and Mexico.I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ecuadorian highlands (Guamote, Chimborazo) from 1988 - 1990.I needed this book to help me gain a better understanding of those two, very challenging years of my life.This book has helped me find many puzzle pieces that I simply did not have while I lived there.It also has helped me understand the changes I see between the late 80's and today.
The chapters are varied and not just focused on Ecuador - so anyone wishing a deeper understanding of Central and South America will find this book enlightening.
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This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights conflict with the views of conservative organized religion. Specifically, it addresses the legalization--or lack thereof--of divorce and abortion in three recently democratized Catholic countries: Spain, Chile, and Argentina. The book offers a vital and timely contribution to political debates on democratic consolidation, social policy, gender and politics as well as religion and politics. It challenges many of the accepted assumptions and conclusions in these fields, arguing that to understand the political dynamics and policy trajectories on these issues we must first analyze the distribution of both economic and political power. This book moves the debate away from a (unitary) focus on values and public opinion to an analysis of how economic, social and political structures give certain actors more power than others. The topics covered should appeal to a broad readership interested in the difficulties of democratic consolidation in Latin America, and the obstacle to social policy reform in a region with such high levels of inequality. The analysis presented in this book also deepens our understanding of why and how European countries have been so successful in limiting the indulgence of organized religion and in promoting women's rights. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Women's Health Journal, published by Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1004 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Health: a human right, a civil right.(Latin America)
Publication: Women's Health Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2002
Publisher: Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network
Volume: 2002Issue: 2Page: 29(2)

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An analysis of constitutional change in 16 countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean to demonstrate how the military dictatorships and human rights violations of recent decades are linked to political developments in 19th-century Europe and the New World. ... Read more

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Possible Paradises, José Manuel Azcona Pastor's engaging and meticulously researched study of Basque emigration to the Americas, is a pathbreaking work of monumental importance. Ranging over the entire former Spanish American empire from Tierra del Fuego to the U.S. Southwest and covering over five centuries of history, Azcona examines the roles and fates of the Basques who came to the New World. He also studies the impact of the New World on the Basque Country, from the importance in the modern Basque diet of such American foodstuffs as corn and beans to the encouragement given to traditional Basque industries by the colonizers' demand for ships and iron tools. He considers the role of Basques in the Spanish imperial expeditions of exploration and conquest; their participation in transatlantic commerce and communication; and their importance to the settlement and continuity of the American empire as merchants, administrators, ecclesiastics, missionaries, farmers, artisans, and businessmen. Among them were such distinguished personages as Juan de Zumarraga, the first Bishop of Mexico; Juan Bautista de Anza, governor of Spanish California; and the sixteenth-century merchant Simón Bolívar, whose eponymous descendant achieved immortality as a leader of the Latin American independence movement.

Possible Paradises is a major contribution to the study of the Basque diaspora and to American history in its broadest sense. Enhanced by numerous maps, tables and graphs, name lists, and photographs, Possible Paradises records the role of a single distinctive and culturally cohesive ethnic group in one of the greatest migration movements in human history. After reading this book, it will be impossible to consider the history of the Americas without acknowledging the impact and multifold contributions of the Basques. ... Read more

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Drawing on manuscript records in the Mexican national archives. Harold Sims provides an account of the expulsion laws passed in 1827-29 and 1833-34 and the chaos they caused in the new Mexican republic. Mexico's colonial experience had left a bitter legacy. Many believed that only the physical removal of the old colonial elite could prevent the consolidation of a new economic and political oligarchy in the republic. While expulsion seemed to provide an answer, the expulsion decrees met stiff resistance and caused a tug-of-war between enforcement and evasion that went on for years. The issue embroiled national and local governments in partisan battle. Friendship, family influence, intrigue and bribery all played a role in determining who left and who stayed. Because exemptions were granted for illness, a thriving business emerged among corrupt physicians. The expulsion issue also fueled rebellions, with anti-Spanish feeling often the proncipal motive for insurgency. After years of struggle, the movement died down. but not until three-quarters of Mexico's peninsulars had been forces to leave. Expulsion crippled a once flourishing economy by spurring massive capital flight.Spaniards were virtually eliminated from the military, the bureaucracy, the mining industry and the Church; they survived only in commerce. The primary victim was republican government itself in 1834, conservatives sought to halt social upheaval by installing a dictatorship. This study analyzes the strength of the Spanish community in the 1820s and 1830s and examines the ramifications of the hostile reaction caused by Mexico's former domination by Spain. ... Read more

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McNair Paper 53.
Explores the complex nexus of security issuesthat the governments of Latin America and the indigenous communities of the region face at the end of the 20th century.

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