Studying abroad has been an elite status symbol that has damaged sovereignty. Review: The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico’s Foreign-Educated Elite, Rachel Grace Newman, 2026, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, United Kingdom, United States
The insecurity of campesinos is fuelling violence in Colombia. Review: Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia’s Peace Laboratory, Alex Diamond, 2026, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Colombia, South America
Puerto Rico’s colonial status made its debt crisis inevitable. Review: Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, David Skeel, 2026, Paul Dry Books
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
An old US predilection for finger-pointing underpins a new study of its neighbour. Review: The Making of Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Transformation, Pamela K Starr, 2026, Polity Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Puerto Ricans offer lessons for Latin Americans in the UK seeking recognition. Review: White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago, Michael Staudenmaier, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
A groundbreaking history of the Maya unifies a hitherto fragmented narrative. The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya, David Stuart, 2026, Princeton University Press
Categories: Central America
A long-forgotten Mexican film enriched the internationalism that distinguished Tito’s Yugoslavia
Categories: Europe, International, Mexico, North America, Yugoslavia (the former)
A study of racial politics mounts a challenge to area studies. Review: Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico, Andrea Mendoza, 2026, Duke University Press
Mexican and Cuban stories translated by Langston Hughes make a radical debut. Review: Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes, ed. Ricardo A Wilson, 2026, Princeton University Press
Categories: Cuba, Mexico, United States
