The overthrow of Viceroy Joaquín de la Pezuela on 29 January 1821 has not received much attention from historians, who have viewed it as a simple military uprising. Yet in this careful study of the episode, based on deep archival research, Patricia Marks...

The poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother...

Mexicans and Mexican Americans on both sides of the border retell their experiences

For forty years and more Alma Guillermoprieto has wandered tirelessly over the Latin Americas, interviewing assassins and the families of their victims, talking to street sweepers and artists, rowdy carnival makers and thoughtful politicians (and plenty...

Aimé Césaire Is Arguably The Greatest Caribbean Literary Writer In History. Best Known For His Incendiary Epic Poem Notebook Of A Return To My Native Land , Césaire Reinvented Black Culture By Conceiving 'négritude' As A Dynamic And Continuous...

Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to...

Traces the five hundred year history of the Christian church in Latin America using letters, diaries, and documents from each period