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In my favourite film genre, the Spaghetti Western, the Mexican Revolution is usually portrayed as a event led by revolutionary bandits, whos...

Between 2002 and 2017 some 1,500 activists were killed for their roles in protecting water, land, natural resources and the communities th...

The recent radical "pink" governments in Latin America are part of a long history of revolutionary politics in that region. Howe...

In the early years of the 21st century one of the inspirations for radicals in the anti-capitalist movement were events in Latin America. ...

Every American child in second or third grade learns about the brave sailor, son of a Genoese weaver, who convinced the King and Queen of...

In the 1920s Henry Ford decided to build a city in the Amazon. He was not the sort of person who was shy of self-promotion so he named it...

A study of attempts to deal with poverty, hunger and malnutrition in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and what this means for food poverty, sustaina...

Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia  completely revived the market for travel books. Becoming the bible for thousands of South American backpac...

Naomi Klein's recent book This Changes Everything has helped reignite the climate movement and radical discussion of the environment and...

Over the last decade the Zapatista movement in Mexico and, to a lesser extent, the  Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra ( MST ) in...

Eduardo Galeano is probably best known for his wonderful history The Open Veins of Latin America which was famously presented to President ...

Robin Blackburn 's book The American Crucible is a brilliantly accessible account of the rise and fall of New World slavery. It is enga...

The arrival of Columbus in the New World in 1492 is often seen as the date which changed history. But had  it been possible to have some so...

Ever so often you come across a book which profoundly shakes you. Mike Davis' Late Victorian  Holocausts is one of those. On every page...