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

While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict. In this book, available for the first time in English, Vanni Pettina makes sense of the region's diverse, complex political experiences of...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present...

A piercingly powerful and deeply researched memoir, a son’s account of the fallout in his mother's life of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and how that secrecy carried...

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker...