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Cuba: A History - Oscar Loyola Vega and Sergio Guerra Vilaboy
Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period, moving on to Cuba's struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and finally ending with Fidel Castro's decision to step down in 2008, this slim volume provides the reader with an overview of the history of the tiny Caribbean island that so often has been at the center of world politics.

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500 Years of Chicana Women's History | Anos de la Mujer Chicana - Elizabeth Martinez
The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas.

500 Years of Chicana Women's History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilienc...
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Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay - Ilan Stavans
Who was César Chávez? Here, an essay and photographs restore this man to his place in American history.

The real César Chávez got lost in the hoopla. Many think he was a Mexican boxer. Young people think he's that guy on the stamp or that statue in the park. No wonder it's difficult, especially for our young people, to understand his human complexities and the struggles to ...
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Diarios de Motocicleta:Notas de viaje por America Latina - Ernesto Che Guevara
Un muy joven Ernesto Guevara viaja por América Latina junto a su amigo Alberto Granado, parten de Argentina y se enfrentan a aventuras y realidades que los transformarán para siempre.
La Poderosaparecía un enorme animal o una visión extraterrestre, flanqueada por dos bolsos de lona impermeable y en la parte posterior un sobrecargado portaequipaje. Los dos jóvenes argenti...
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Maria's Story DVD - Monona Wali (Director)
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and...
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The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader - Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating (Editor)
Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera, she played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer theories and identities. As an editor of three anthologies, she played an equally vital role in developing an inclus...
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Guantánamo: A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution - Jana K. Lipman
Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors—it has required workers. This revealing history of the women and men who worked on the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay tells the story of U.S.-Cuban...
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Procesos revolucionarios en América Latina - Alberto Prieto
A comprehensive history of a continent in turmoil and struggling for unity, this is an inspiring journey through centuries of Latin American revolutions, insurrections, rebellions, and armed resistance to invasion, colonization, and imperialist interventions.


Una inspiradora travesía por la historia de los procesos revolucionarios de América Latina iluminada por Túpac Amaru, ...
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Notas sobre la revolucíon latinoamericano - Patricio Echegaray
This is a selection of articles, interviews, and speeches by a leading voice of the Latin American Left, famous for his interview with Colombian guerrillas. Here, Patricio Echegaray discusses recent political developments in Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, and Argentina, as well as his reflections on the significance of the Russian and Cuban revolutions.


Patricio Echegaray es un infatigable peregrino q...
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El Salvador: Su historia y sus luchas (1932–1985) - Amílcar Figueroa Salazar
Its title translated as El Salvador: Its History and Struggles, this short history reviews the continual upheavals, interventions, and civil war that have wracked El Salvador since the 1930s, explaining the FMLN's armed struggle in 1980s and the peace accords that eventually led to the former guerrilla movement's electoral victory in March 2009.

La elección del primer gobierno de izquier...
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