Reviews in August 2007

LatAmRoB, Volume 1, Number 9


The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy in Argentina

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The watchdog society

Enforcing the Rule of Law develops a novel concept of ‘social accountability’ as an alternative form of control over politicians Continue reading

Telling it straight

Politics Latin America by Gavin O’Toole is the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to this complex region yet published Continue reading

Mexico’s dirty secret

Alberto Ulloa Bornemann recounts his imprisonment and torture during Mexico’s ‘dirty war’ of the 1970s Continue reading

Banana bullies

Peter Chapman’s Jungle Capitalists exposes the greed and treachery that characterised the rise of United Fruit Continue reading

Fighting back

Favela Rising is a life-affirming documentary about how brave young people counter the endemic violence of Rio’s favelas - with music Continue reading

Happiness is a toy goy

Eduardo Mignona’s Sol de otoño will appeal to romantics but is not as thirst quenching as Whisky Continue reading


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