Dominican Republic: Beyond the Lighthouse

Ferguson, James

Latin America Bureau

The Caribbean basin is one of the most volatile areas of the world today. Since the last century the United States has maintained its supremacy in the region through direct and indirect military intervention, alliances with local oligarchies and economic domination. The poverty, repression and underdevelopment which characterize the region today are part of this legacy of American economic penetration and political influence. But these conditions have led to increasing social and political unrest which, for the first time, are threatening United States control over events in its own backyard. Under The Eagle traces the history and motivations of United States policy in Central America and the Caribbean, from President Monroe to President Reagan, and assesses its impact on the impoverished people of the region. It concentrates in particular on events since the Cuban revolution and includes a special focus on EI Salvador and the United States' latest attempts to suppress the struggle for social justice and self-determination of those who live Under the Eagle.

Under The Eagle: United States Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean

History

Pearce, Jenny

Americas

Green Gold: Bananas and Dependency in the Eastern Caribbean

Looks at the history and future prospects for the banana industry in four Caribbean islands: Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. It focuses on conditions for the small farmers and includes a study of Geest PLC, the company solely responsible for distributing Windward bananas in Britain.

Business & Money

THOMSON, Robert

International

From 1984 to 1988 Ecuador underwent an experiment in "Andean Thatcherism", conducted by its authoritarian president, Leon Febres Cordero. This work examines the historical forces behind the Febres Cordero regime and the country's traditions of populism and military intervention.

Ecuador: Fragile Democracy

Corkhill, David

Cubitt, David

Colombia is a country of dramatic and contradictory images. Officially it is a Latin American successs story , with steady growth, political stability and a large middle class. Yet it has become notorious for the activities of the so-called Medellin and Cali cartels and the violence surrounding the cocaine trade. Although credited with the region's longest lasting democracy, it has been the scene of extreme political and criminal violence which gives it the highest murder rate in the world.Colombia: Inside the Labyrinth explains the reality behind the official and the actual country. It examines the historical basis of Colombia's two-party system and analyzes the corruption and instability which have undermined the state's ability to govern. Exploring the economic and social forces which condemn a quarter of the population to absolute poverty, it examines the role of the political parties, trade unions, guerrillas and civic movements in Colombia today. Colombia: Inside the Labyrinth unravels the threads of this paradoxical country. Drawing on first hand research, interviews and testimony, it offers a provocative and timely analysis of a country described as a "political time bomb".

Colombia: Inside the Labyrinth

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

"They would have to kill us all to destroy our movement and they can't. I don't get that cold feeling anymore. I am no longer afraid of dying."-Chico Mendes, November 1988 Chico Mendes, the charismatic founder of the Brazilian rubber tappers union, was murdered by a hired assassin on 22 December 1988. As a trade union leader, he won international acclaim for his role in the non-violent campaign to protect the Amazon rainforest, on which the rubber tappers depend for their livelihood. In Fight for the Forest, Chico Mendes talks of his life's work in his last major interview conducted just weeks before his death. He recalls the rubber tappers' campaign against forest clearances and their struggle to develop sustainable alternatives for the Amazon.

Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in his Own Words

Mendez, Chico

Gross, Tony

Biographies & Memoirs

Faces of Latin America

This work portrays Latin America's peoples in their fight for a brighter future. It explores the region's economic crisis and the desecration of the environment. The author shows how injustice and conflict in the countryside have unleashed an exodus to the slums that encircle the major cities. He analyzes the roles of the main actors in the continent's history--both those in power and the poor majority who, through their social movements in the countryside and shanty towns, struggle for their vision of Latin America's future.

Green, Duncan

This book offers an insight into urban violence in Medellin, Colombia's second city. Alsonso Salazar journeys into the jails, hospitals and shanty towns of Colombia's drug capital to interview teenage contract killers, their families, priests and self-defence vigilantes. He brings alive the world of Medellin's youth gangs who, in their own words, are "born to die" before they can have children or grow old.

Born to Die in Medellín

Alonso Salazar

Social Sciences

Peru: Time of Fear

Since 1980, Peru has been the scene of an escalating civil war. On one side are the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) Maoists determined to destroy existing society. On the other, the Peruvian military, acknowledged as South America's worst human rights violators. Caught in the middle, and dying in their thousands each year, are the poor peasants and slum-dwellers of Peru. Victims also of a collapsing economy and radical austerity program, the great majority of Peruvians are living a time of fear. This work looks at the astonishing success of Sendero Luminoso, examines the party's bizarre ideology and describes how its violence reaches every corner of Peruvian society. It also explains why "non-politician" President Fujimori has assumed dictatorial powers in a deal with the military

Poole, Deborah

Rénique, Gerardo

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Dominican Republic: Beyond the Lighthouse

Under The Eagle: United States Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean

Green Gold: Bananas and Dependency in the Eastern Caribbean

Ecuador: Fragile Democracy

Colombia: Inside the Labyrinth

Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in his Own Words

Faces of Latin America

Faces of Latin America

Born to Die in Medellín

Peru: Time of Fear