Product Description: Los países de Latinoamérica, desde México hasta Argentina, se han debatido entre la izquierda y el neoliberalismo, siendo la primera, la que mayor auge ha cobrado en años recientes. Sin embargo, como Jorge G. Castañeda y Marco A...read more

A sociopolitical evaluation of America's Mexican immigrant group challenges popular misconceptions while discussing why today's immigrants have chosen to live in the United States and what they hope to achieve, in an insider's account by a former Mexican foreign minister who addresses the 2006 rally for immigrant rights.

Product Description: Over a decade ago, Jorge Castañeda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American left’s fate at the end of the Cold War. Since then, the left across Latin America has travelled in paths no one could have predicted...read more

An account of the machinery of Mexican presidential politics from the 1920s to the surprise election of the opposition candidate Vincente Fox in July 2000. (view table of contents)

A distinguished Latin American political scientist reconstructs the complex life and significance of Che Guevara--revolutionary, martyr, and counter-culture hero--from his early upbringing to his 1967 death in Bolivia. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. NYT.

A distinguished Latin American political scientist reconstructs the complex life and significance of Che Guevara--revolutionary, martyr, and counter-culture hero--from his early upbringing to his 1967 death in Bolivia. 25,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

An intriguing biography of revolutionary Che Guevara draws on interviews with family and colleagues to trace Guevara's life from his childhood in Argentina, through his career as a revolutionary, to his death in the Bolivian jungles. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: One of the most trenchant critics of the Latin American scene and American foreign policy, Jorge G. Castañeda has been hailed as the “leading Mexican voice in the U.S. media” (In These Times). In The Mexican Shock Castañeda examines the major issues in Mexico in recent years and their effects on the United States: emigration, the relationship between politics and economics, the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Colosio, and the rapid devaluation of the peso...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Reviews the distrust and ignorance that have often marked the relations between the U.S. and Latin America

A look at the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico covers foreign policy, economic relations, social influence, public attitudes, cultures, and current problems