Mexico’s president-elect delivers an unforgiving critique of moral rot at the heart of power – and outlines an uplifting vision of renewal ■ A New Hope for Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, translated by Natascha Uhlmann, 2017, Pluto Press
Ironically celebrated by Mexico’s state as a heroic precursor of the Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magón rejected any compromise with the new revolutionary order ■ The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón, Claudio Lomnitz, 2014, Zone Books
Chile’s gulag under Pinochet serves as a brutal reminder of what is at stake in a military coup ■ Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp, Sergio Bitar, translated by Erin Goodman, 2017, University of Wisconsin Press
A study of drought in Brazil reveals how politics has trumped technology
Fire hazards in 19th-century Mexico City helped to forge a new form of citizenship
The abolition of slavery in Brazil inaugurated a process that still continues
Revolutionary patriarchs prioritised their vision of social revolution over female emancipation
US car giants employed women in Mexico as a stick with which to beat male workers
A new concept of womankind was forged in post-revolutionary Mexico
How Chilean women activists on both left and right employ common strategies
