Mexico’s corrupt military enjoys unlimited power and near total impunity. Review: Generals at the Gates: Military Power and Social Change in Mexico, Dawn Marie Paley, 2026, Verso
Categories: Mexico
Rot in the barracks
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Category: North America
Reviews from the North American countries
Dependent theory
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Debates about Latin American political economy have been uniquely ideological. Review: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America, Patrick Iber, 2026, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Europe, International, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South America
Ancient influencers
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Traditional Nahua culture and belief have much to tell the modern world. Reviews: Flickering Creations: Concepts of Nahua Precious Art, Allison Caplan, 2026, Princeton UP; and The Bundle: Unwrapping Nahua Religious Traditions, Molly H Bassett, 2026, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
The revolt of the peripheries
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Head hunter
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Decapitation structures a bold new take on cinematic theory. Review: The Visual Guillotine: The Cinematic Cut and Politics in Latin America, Thomas Matusiak, 2026, University of Minnesota Press
Last man standing
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A black revolutionary’s exile in Cuba draws attention to unfinished business. Review: Fugitive States: The Life of Charlie Hill, a Black Radical Exile in Socialist Cuba, Teishan A Latner, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Cuba, United States
Invisible punks
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Migrant Mexican farmworkers can count punk rock among their contributions to the US. Review: Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest, Juan Ignacio Mora, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States
Hopeful pessimism
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All is not lost: Puerto Rico can be free. Review: Post-Disaster Futures: Ruin, Repair, and Decolonial Imagination in Puerto Rico, edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo, 2026, Haymarket Books
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
Cultural Medusa
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A pioneering woman was behind Latin America’s first avant-garde arts magazine. Review: Artes Visuales: The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print, Harper Montgomery et al., 2026, Hunter College Art Galleries/Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
Categories: Mexico, United States
The resilient revolutionary
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Lessons about Cuba’s survival can be gleaned from the latest biography of Castro. Review: Fidel Castro: Beyond the Legend, Katrien Demuynck and Marc Vandepitte, 2026, Praxis Press
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, International, Mexico, North America, Russia, United States, Yugoslavia (the former)