Book Reviews

A Review of The Amazon in Times of WarMarcos Colón’s book The Amazon in Times of War offers a compelling collection of essays exposing the physical, economic and institutional violence that devastates the Amazon. He argues that much of this destruction stems from...

A Review of The Making of Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Paulo Freire's Approach to Literacy, Training and Adult EducationThis slim, but substantive, volume is a welcome addition to the immense body of literature that traces the genesis and development of Paulo Freire's...

A Review of The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Revolution, Crime, and Policing during Chavismo Venezuela has undergone stark transformations in recent decades. Once hailed as one of Latin America’s most stable democracies, the country has more recently been...

A Review of Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame While writing this review, I visited a big bookstore in Los Angeles, where I live in, and I observed that the comic and graphic novel section was put aside in a little corner,...

A Review of The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires. Football, Civic Associations, Barrios, and Politics, 1912-1943 Every time I travel back to Buenos Aires, my hometown, I immediately text my dad, "Can you get tickets to go to La Bombonera?" La Bombonera is Boca Juniors’...

A Review of The Collapse of Panama: The History of the U.S. Invasion and The End of the DictatorshipPanama has been in the news recently as the target of intimidating and ill-informed remarks by President-elect Donald Trump. Around Christmastime, Trump first accused...

A Review of The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture I remember reading with emotion during my adolescence “Juan López and John Ward,” the poem that the great writer of fantastic literature Jorge Luis Borges dedicated to the Falklands War...

A Review of Hopped Up, How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global CommodityAbout ten years ago, when I arrived at the Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery in the mountain town of Orizaba, Veracruz, in Mexico, I was excited that the administrator I'd spoken with earlier...