Reviews in July 2007

LatAmRoB, Volume 1, Number 8


Talking about my generation…

Fidel Castro was a boy too, as Patrick Symmes reveals in this boisterous account of the Cuban leader’s school days Continue reading

Colonial Latin America, Sixth Edition

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The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil

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It’s my party

Transforming Labor-based Parties in Latin America poses an important challenge to existing literature on party systems and institutionalisation Continue reading

Memories and doubts

Miguel Vitagliano’s dark, often desolate Golpe de aire explores how the death of a loved one mixes up past memories and present doubts Continue reading

A power in summary

Brazil Since 1980 by Luna and Klein provides a neat overview of Latin America’s emerging powerhouse Continue reading

Ouch! That stung…

If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t read Edyr Augusto’s Hornets’ Nest. It’s small, but its deadly… Continue reading

Not Japan, but still sumo wrestling

Battle in Heaven is a sweaty foray under the sheets of an ugly, morally corrupt and class-ridden society Continue reading

Mush with a message

Sueño is a mushy soap-style sideways glance at the lives and hopes of Mexican immigrants in the US Continue reading

Not just a pretty face

Salma Hayek leads in this biopic about the Mirabal sisters, whose murder by the brutal dictator Trujillo changed the Dominican Republic’s history Continue reading


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