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
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
Brazil’s failure to prosecute military crimes harbours a future threat. Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil, Jacob Blanc, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, South America
Neocolonial conflict shapes the pathology of leishmaniasis. Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia, Lina Pinto-García, 2025, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Colombia, South America
An Australian exile’s adventures in Colombia are a perfect cure for the malady of stereotypes. Better Than Cocaine: Learning to grow coffee, and live, in Colombia, Barry Max Wills, 2023, Fuller Vigil
Categories: Colombia, South America
Women and girls have been the silent victims of Colombia’s conflict, exploited and abused by left-wing guerrillas as much as their enemies. Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood, Paula Delgado-Kling, 2024, Evergreen Review/OR Books
Categories: Canada, Colombia, North America, South America, United States
Nicaragua wrong-footed the empire by attracting international support. Review: The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History, by Mateo Jarquín
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, United States
