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The open veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano

A classic of Latin American history and a superb primer on the region, cataloguing many of the injustices heaped upon it

 
Looking for history: dispatches from Latin America
Jorge Castaneda

Perceptive study of where the left has been and where it should go, by a Mexican political scientist who was the foreign minister.

 
Latin American art of the 20th century
Edward Lucie-Smith
From the revolutionary Mexican muralists to the Argentinian post-modernists, a look at how style, society and politics made their marks
 
Under the eagle
Jenny Pearce

A history of US intervention in Central America and the Caribbean

(out of print)

 
A flag for sunrise
 
Robert Stone
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Intriguing tale set in an unnamed Central American country on the brink of revolution