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Latin American History

The term Latin America primarily refers to the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in the Americas.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Latin American History"

Cuba: An American History
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Puerto Rico: A National History
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
Magdalena: River of Dreams
Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
Who Killed Berta Caceres?: Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the Planet
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
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Chilean History. Historia de Chile
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Law and Legal History
11 books — 3 voters

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Women's Work
186 books — 27 voters
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History of Mexico / Historia de México
224 books — 35 voters


Abhijit Naskar
LATINO means Loud, Loving And Tenacious, Ingenious in Obscurity.
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Hank Bracker
Wild Times Since Mexico accepted communism as a legitimate political party during the 1920’s and allowed refugees greater flexibility of thought, it became a haven from persecution. Moreover, living in Mexico was less costly than most countries, the weather was usually sunny and no one objected to the swinging lifestyle that many of the expats engaged in. It was for these reasons that Julio Mella from Cuba, Leon Trotsky from Russia and others sought refuge there. It also attracted many actors, a ...more
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