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 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 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 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 Creation of Modern Buenos Aires. Football, Civic Associations, Barrios, and Politics, 1912-1943
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 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...
A Review of Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame
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 Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Revolution, Crime, and Policing during Chavismo
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...
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