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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Latin America's Useable Past | |
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| Independence Narratives, Past and Present | |
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| Sim�n Bol�var, the Letter from Jamaica: Kingston, Jamaica, September 6, 1815 | |
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| Ambassador Odeen Ishmael, "Influencing the Democratic Process in the Americas: A Tribute to Sim�n Bol�var" | |
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| Speech by President Hugo Ch�vez at the opening of XII G-15 Summit, Monday, March 1, 2004 | |
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| Caudillos versus the Nation State | |
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| Esteban Echeverr�a, The Slaughterhouse (El Matadero) | |
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| Race and Citizenship in the New Republics | |
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| Raimundo (Raymundo) Nina Rodrigues, The Fetishist Animism of the Bahian Blacks (O Animismo Fetischistados Negros Bahianos) (Excerpt) | |
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| Political Program of the Partido Independiente de Color, 1908 | |
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| Manifesto, "Santa Rita de Casia," y "San L�zaro": Sociedad de Protecci�n Mutua, Canto y Baile | |
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| The Export Boom as Modernity | |
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| James Creelman, "Porfirio D�az, Hero of the Americas" (Excerpts) | |
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| Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age | |
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| Jos� Mart�, "Our America," from La Revista Ilustrada, New York, January 1, 1891 | |
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| Emiliano Zapata, The Plan de Ayala, 1911 | |
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| Jos� Carlos Mari�tegui, "The Problem of the Indian," from Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, 1928 | |
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| Commerce, Coercion, and America's Empire | |
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| Augusto Sandino, Political Manifesto, Nicaragua, July 1927 | |
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| Silent War (Film) | |
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| Journey to Banana Land (Film) | |
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| Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, "From the Noble Savage to the Third World" 1970 | |
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| Power to the People | |
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| Foster Hailey, "Peronists Will Head Argentine Ticket," New York Times, August 23, 1951 | |
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| The Peronist Version of the Speech | |
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| The Renunciamiento as Compiled from Newsreel and Archival Footage | |
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| Eva Per�n's Final Response Broadcast over the Airwaves at 8.30 p.m. on August 31, 1951 | |
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| A Decade of Revolution in Cuba | |
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| Fidel Castro, "Cuba Is a Socialist Nation," Address to the May Day Celebrations, May 1, 1961 (Excerpt) | |
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| Reinaldo Arenas, "The Fire," from Before Night Falls | |
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| Jes�s D�az, "Chapter 13," from The Initials of the Earth | |
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| Elizabeth Dore, "Cubans' Memories of the 1960s" (Excerpt) | |
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| Peru in an Age of Terror | |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa, "The Massacre," excerpt from "Inquest in the Andes: A Latin American Writer Explores the Political Lessons of a Peruvian Massacre," New York Times Magazine, July 31, 1983 | |
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| The Interview of the Century, 1988 (Excerpt) | |
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| Fujimori's 1992 Declaration of the Autogolpe | |
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| A Day in the Trial of the Century, by Carolina Huam�n Oyague (Family Member of La Cantuta Victim) | |
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| A Right to Have Rights in the New Democracies | |
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| Migrant Guide (2004) | |
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| Bolivia's Left Turn | |
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| Memorandum, a Declaration from the Naci�n Camba, February 14, 2001 | |
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| Walter Ch�vez and �lvaro Garc�a Linera, "From the Diesel-Price-Hike Protests to the Struggle for Autonomy: The Camba Rebellion" | |
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| "Santa Cruz Belongs to All Bolivians," Bolpress, August 24, 2008 | |
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| Speech by the President of the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee, Branko Marinkovic, in the Plaza "24 de Septiembre," Santa Cruz de la Sierra, January 25, 2009 | |
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| Tuff� Ar�, "A Reading of Yes and No," El Deber, January 26, 2009 | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |