The ReVista book review section features reviews of recent books about Latin America, the Caribbean and the Latinx community in all disciplines.
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A Review of The Collapse of Panama: The History of the U.S. Invasion and The End of the Dictatorship
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
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 Commodity
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...
A Review of From South Central to Southside: Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity and Disorganized Violence in Belize City
A Review of From South Central to Southside: Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity and Disorganized Violence in Belize CityIn 2013, I took a repurposed U.S. school bus from the south of Mexico, my adopted home country, to Belize City. Once across the border, we ended up...
A Review of Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Policy in Twentieth Century Caracas
A Review of Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Policy in Twentieth Century CaracasRebecca Jarman, in her book, Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Policy in Twentieth Century Caracas, explores the vibrancy and complexity of...
A Review of The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History
A Review of The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American HistoryOne afternoon in 2014, driving along a dirt road that snaked through the countryside several hours outside of the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, I came across an ancient woman on foot, carrying a...
A Review of The Brazil Chronicles
A Review of The Brazil Chronicles In the late 1970s, a young aspiring journalist Stephen G. Bloom was having trouble finding work at any stateside newspaper. After a stint at his college newspaper, the University of California Daily Californian, Bloom worked as a...
A Review of The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis
A Review of The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis On March 19, 2010, two graduate students at the Tec de Monterrey, Jorge Antonio Mercado Alonso and Javier Francisco Arredondo Verdugo, were killed by members of the Mexican Army...
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