Book Reviews

A Review of Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981-1984 During most of the 1980s I lived in Managua, Nicaragua, as a photojournalist for Newsweek magazine. I had covered the 1979 Sandinista Revolution that sent shockwaves through Washington because Nicaragua “lost” a...

A Review of The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned World Omar Torrijos, military dictator of Panama, may be one of the most understudied leaders in modern Latin American history. After seizing power in 1968, he reshaped the country’s...

A Review of A New No-Man’s Land: Writing and Art at Guantánamo, CubaGuantánamo/GTMO: Cuba’s easternmost province, occupied territory, U.S. military base, prison, refuge, natural habitat, torture site, symbol, legal exception and geographical reference of the famous...

A Review of Venezuela’s Collapse – The Long Story of How Things Fell ApartOn July 28, the Venezuelans will hopefully have the opportunity to elect a new president. Twenty-five years after President Hugo Chávez came to power, very few of them are said to freely support...

A Review of A Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of Argentina I received my copy of A Body of One’s Own just a few months into the chaotic Milei presidential administration in Argentina. This meant that I was reading Patricio Simonetto’s excellent book on trans and...

A Review of The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected WorldIn the last two decades, fueled by commemorations of bicentennials and a soon-to-come semi-quincentennial, Atlantic History has experienced a golden age of studies focusing on the...

A Review of Colonial Reckoning. Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Colonial Reckoning. Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba is the latest work by historian Louis A. Pérez Jr., whose broad academic interests have mainly revolved around the...

A Review of Right-Wing Populism in Latin America and Beyond Scholars of populism in Latin America for much of the period of “the pink tide” in the region during the 2000s and early 2010s associated populism with governments of the left. Presidents such as Hugo Chávez...