Historical fact is an antidote to the racist fictions about violent Mexicans used by Trump to justify US aggression. Review: A Brief History of Violence in Mexico, Pablo Piccato, translated by Quentin Pope, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico, United States
The US attack on Venezuela confirms that imperialism is all about space. Review: The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space, Don Thomas Deere, 2025, Duke University Press
Press ‘freedom’ in Mexico has been shaped by elite ambitions. Review: Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since 1980, Andrew Paxman, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico
Kast’s election open the country’s sores. Review: Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile, Natascha Scott-Stokes, 2024, University of New Mexico Press
Categories: Chile
Cuba’s revolution was not won just by bearded white men. Review: Clandestinas: Women in the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1955–1959, Carollee Bengelsdorf, with photographs curated by Susan Meiselas, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Cuba
Cuba’s nuclear brinkmanship contains lessons about imperialism and internationalism. Review: The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War, Renata Keller, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: China, Cuba, International, North America, Russia, United States, Venezuela
A long-forgotten Mexican film enriched the internationalism that distinguished Tito’s Yugoslavia
Categories: Europe, International, Mexico, North America, Yugoslavia (the former)
Llana Barber explores a history of uprisings in the US against a backdrop of systemic racism, reminding us as we observe Los Angeles that the weak never suffer in silence
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Puerto Rico, South America, United States
Settler colonialism oppresses every aspect of Mapuche life—including sound. Review: Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference, Luis E Cárcamo-Huechante, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
Hard as it is to swallow, militaries have at times been the midwives of democracy. Review: The Birth of Democracy in South America, Raúl L Madrid, 2025, Cambridge University Press
An ancient Oaxacan icon sheds light on the modern meaning of pilgrimage. Review: Devotion in Motion: Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico, Edward Wright-Ríos, 2025, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Mexico
