On 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 his successor Nicolas Maduro and their movement, as the state of the economy and the political system has so severely undermined the people’s ability to live dignified lives.

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 travesti history, citizenship and embodiment in 20th century Argentina as the manosphere’s latest darling was banning gender-inclusive language, rallying to recriminalize abortion, gutting health and social services and dissolving government agencies.

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 island’s culture, identity, historiography and political economy, as much as its conflicted albeit intimate relationship with the United States