Mexican mezcal raises a glass to ‘enrichment’ capitalism. Mezcal in Oaxaca: A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace, Ronda L Brulotte, 2025, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Tag: Social history
Nationalism on a plate
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Food in post-revolutionary Mexican art had an ideological flavour. Culinary Palettes: The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art, Lesley A Wolff, 2025, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
The revival of Macondo
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A writer breathes new life into a town immortalised in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Mompós Project: A Tale of Love, Hotels and Madness in Colombia, Richard McColl, 2025, Fuller Vigil
Categories: Colombia, South America
The benefits of mob rule
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In Latin America, crooks reign where states cower. Inside Criminalized Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro, Nicholas Barnes, 2025, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Brazil, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, North America, South America
Train to nowhere?
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The roots of terror
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Comment: Walter Salles’ chilling warning about authoritarianism ducks the role of the US
Categories: Brazil, North America, South America, United States
The anti-imperial pen
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Modern lessons reside in the essays of Paraguayan anarchist Rafael Barrett. Paraguayan Sorrow: Writings of Rafael Barrett, A Radical Voice in a Dispossessed Land, translated and edited by William Costa, 2024, Monthly Review Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, South America, Uruguay
Zumba zeal
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Latin flavour spices up imperial recipes for physical perfection. Fitness Fiesta! Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba, Petra R Rivera-Rideau, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Colombia, North America, South America, United States
War without end
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Megaprojects are just the latest destructive incursions into Maya land. The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala, Giovanni Batz, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Unseen genius
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US imperialism renders the art of Puerto Rico invisible. Nuyorican & Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States