The book of the new, two-part biopic on Che Guevara starring Benicio Del Toro as the legendary revolutionary.

Director Steven Soderbergh has based his two Che movies (Che: The Argentine and Che: Guerrilla) on two classic diaries written by Che Guevara: Reminiscences of the ...

In 1847, war broke out between the United States and the young Mexican republic, a conflict that saw Mexico lose half of its territory to its northern neighbor. By examining this painful history, the autho...

“Fidel’s devotion to the word is almost magical.”—Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The most comprehensive selection of the most famous speeches of Fidel Castro is now available in the original Spanish language.

An articulate and incisive, if controversial, political figure on the wo...

In a timely review of fifty years of the Cuban Revolution, this special issue of Contexto Latinoamericano includes a range of Cuban and international commentaries that examine the history of the revolution at a critical time, when some argue that a "transition" to a new "post-Fidel" Cuba h...

Chile y Allende is Fidel Castro's analysis of the Chilean road to socialism in the 1970s. In 1971, Castro spent a month in Chile, addressing public meetings and discussing with President Salvador Allende Cuba's experience in combating US-inspired counterrevolutionary forces. On dep...

Tracing the history of the Mayan peoples in Central America, from their origins to the present day, the author (a former UNRG guerrilla) shows how the conquest, racist abuse, and super-exploitation of a highly developed society and culture led to a thirty-year struggle to regain land, liberty, an...

This book analyzes the political and economic forces that gave rise to Nazism and allowed it to flourish in Germany and elsewhere. It also examines the social sectors that profited under Hitler's regime amid the concentration camps and war. Part of the Historias desde abajo (History from Below) s...

Lorena Peña achieved the rank of FMLN comandante during the civil war against the US-sponsored military regime in the 1980s. These "fragments from her life," as she describes this book, are offered as a tribute to the women of El Salvador who continue to struggle against all manifestations of ...

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 for...