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Books : Biography : Political : Countries & Regions : Central & South America

• The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire

  Joe Jackson

  
  
   

• Evita: The Real Lives of Eva Peron

  Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro

  
  
   

• The Bolivian Diary: Authorised Edition (Che Guevara Publishing Project)

  Ernesto Guevara

  
  Looking back on the life of his revolutionary comrade Che Guevara in his introduction to the Bolivian Diary, Fidel Castro claims that "rarely, if ever, in history has one man's image, name and example spread so rapidly and so completely". Ernesto Guevara de la Sema is the ultimate revolutionary, an icon who spawned a million T-shirts, and whose death in 1967 whilst fermenting revolution in Bolivia enshrined him as a martyr of the radical Left. In his short life Che Guevara led military revolutions in Mexico, the Congo and, most famously, Cuba, before heading to Bolivia in 1966 to establish a guerrilla movement in an attempt to overthrow the Bolivian military dictatorship.

  His Bolivian Diary, first published in Cuba in 1968, is the remarkable and ultimately tragic first-hand account of Che's formation of a tiny band of revolutionaries, his attempt to proselytise the local peasants, his skirmishes with the Bolivian army, and his final shootout and cold-blooded execution at the hands of the military in October 1967. Stripped of the romantic idealism usually associated with Che, the diary is a sobering account of the drudgery, fear and monotony of guerrilla warfare. Much of the diary is taken up with the preoccupations of basic survival in the primitive conditions of the Bolivian mountains, whilst playing a tense and often ineffective game of hit and run with the Bolivian army. There are some wonderful moments, such as Che breaking off from military preparations to remember that, "I must write some letters to Sartre and Bertrand Russell..." or commandeering a jeep and running it on the urine of his guerrillas. Ultimately this is a tough, uncompromising portrait of a ruthlessly disciplined and single-minded man, relishing a conflict which "gives us the opportunity to turn ourselves into revolutionaries, the highest state of the human species". --Jerry Brotton

  
   

• I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

  Rigoberta Mench

  
  
   

• Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash

  Jr. Jesse Marcel, Linda Marcel

  
  
   

• Evita: Woman with the Whip - Life of Eva Peron

  Mary Main

  
  
   

• In My Own Words: Evita

  Eva Peron

  
  
   

• ME Llamo Rigoberta Menchu Y as

  Elizabeth Burgos

  
  
   

• Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics and the Emerging Threat to the U.S.

  Kozloff N

  
  
   

• Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far

  R Bourne

  
  
   

• Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

  N Fraser

  
  
   

• Revolt of the Cockroach People

  Oscar Zeta Acosta

  
  
   

• Juan and Eva Peron

  Clive Foss

  
  
   

• The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  
  
   

• The Shadows of Elisa Lynch: How a Nineteenth-century Irish Courtesan Became the Most Powerful Woman in Paraguay

  Sian Rees

  
  
   

• Salvador Allende Reader: Chile's Voice of Democracy

  
  
   

• My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy

  Wen Ho Lee, Helen Zia

  
  
   

• Chile: The Other September 11: Reflections and Commentaries on the 1973 Coup in Chile (Radical History)

  
  
   

• Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far

  Richard Bourne

  
  
   

• Letter to My Mother: A Message of Love, a Plea for Freedom

  Ingrid Betancourt, Lorenzo Delloye-Betancourt, Melanie Delloye-Betancourt