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
Pawns in print
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Tag: Economic history
Andean Sisyphus
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Peruvian nation-building has been characterised by unending frustration. Review: Modern Peru: A New History, Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara (eds), 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Peru
Blurred visions
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The quest to link oceans has driven Central America to distraction. Review: Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions, Jessica M Lepler, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Central America, China, Guatemala, International, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, United States
The death squads’ auto of choice
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Poverty has many faces
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Scarcity does not always lend itself to statistical analysis. Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru, Kristin Skrabut, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Peru, South America
Insect economy
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The humble grasshopper can tell us much about labour. Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them, Jeffrey H Cohen, 2025, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Twenty books about US imperialism
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PODCAST 31: The empire is again meddling in Latin America
Italy’s original sin
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Jair Bolsonaro’s racism did not come from thin air. The Italian Colony of São Paulo: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil, Giulia Riccò, 2025, Fordham University Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
A martyr speaks
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Murder cannot silence the truth about deforestation. How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Deadly Quest for Answers, Dom Phillips and Contributors, 2025, Bonnier Books
Categories: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, South America, Venezuela
The Cuban interregnum
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Castro defined the struggle against imperialism by advocating internationalism. Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The example of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, 2025, Pathfinder
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States