Cuba’s energy revolution has had political consequences. The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba, Gustav Cederlöf, 2023, University of California Press
Tag: Revolution
Taking back the truth
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US meddling in Venezuela has never been in support of ‘democracy’. Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire, Anya Parampil, 2024, OR Books
Categories: North America, South America, United States, Venezuela
Postsocialist puzzle
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Cuba’s cultural condition is put under the microscope. Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History, Paloma Duong, 2024, University of Texas Press
Long march into myth
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Luis Carlos Prestes gave Brazil a foundational narrative—and a Marxist titan. The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil, Jacob Blanc, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Bolivia, Brazil, South America
Two books on Nicaragua
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Surviving the onslaught
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How did a tiny Central American country besieged by the US get the better of the empire? Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War, Eline van Ommen, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Central America, Europe, International, Nicaragua, North America, United States
Goliath’s global David
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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
The invisible rebels
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Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico’s Gran Nayar, 1910–1940, Nathaniel Morris, 2020, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Love in a time of revolution
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Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico, Jaime M Pensado, 2023, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Tricontinental dreams
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North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970, Moe Taylor, 2023, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela