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The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics
A Review of The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics Historical Voices, New Perspectives Fifteen-plus years ago, historian David Bushnell argued in his widely read textbook that Colombia was the least studied and probably the least understood major country in...
Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia
A Review of Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia Learning through History: A Path Toward Peace On June 30, 2017, a liaison officer with the United Nations peace keeping mission in Colombia wrote, from Arauca, about the prospects...
Kill the Ampaya! The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction
A Review of Kill the Ampaya! The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction Baseball and Fiction In December 1999, President Hugo Chávez took to the balcony of the Miraflores Palace in Caracas to announce that a nationwide referendum had overwhelmingly approved a new...
Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution A Quixotic Quest At various points in Peter Andreas’ extraordinary childhood, he was kidnapped by his own mother, lived as a squatter in a commune in Chile during the tumultuous months leading up to the coup d’état in...
Inka History in Knots
A Review of Inka History in Knots The Paradox of (Inka) History Some years ago I went to the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, in Italy’s Alto Adige, to gaze upon Ötzi. Better known as the Iceman, Ötzi was an early Bronze Age traveler and homicide victim...
The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
A Review of The Tupac Amaru Rebellion Tracing Latin America’s Revolutionary Roots On May 18, 1781, Spanish authorities in Cuzco executed José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera, also known as Tupac Amaru, in front of thousands of onlookers. Claiming to be the rightful...
Latin American Revolutionaries and the Arab World
Latin American Revolutionaries and the Arab World Latin American and Arab Revolutionaries The presence of an Arab diaspora in Latin America is reasonably well known. Step forward Shakira! But relations between Latin America and the Arab World have not been well...
Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America
A Review of Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America Design and Natural Resource Extraction If I had to think of keywords for this intriguing book, they would be “passionate” and “meticulous,” with a third word bringing these two...
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