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This work portrays Latin America's peoples in their fight for a brighter future. It explores the region's economic crisis and the desecration of the environment. The author shows how injustice and conflict in the countryside have unleashed an exodus to the slums that encircle the major cities. He analyzes the roles of the main actors in the continent's history--both those in power and the poor majority who, through their social movements in the countryside and shanty towns, struggle for their vision of Latin America's future.

Prelims - Faces of Latin America - 1st Edition (Title Page, Dedication, Copyright Information, Contents, Acronyms and Glossary of Spanish and Portuguese words, Map and Latin America in Figures, Introduction)

1. The Curse of Wealth: The Commodity Trade

2. Promised Land: Land Ownership, Power and Conflict

3. A Land in Flames: Environment

4. Mean Streets: Migration and Life in the City

5. Growing Pains: Industrialisation and the Debt Crisis

6. Writing on the Wall: Culture, Identity and Politics

7. Party Pieces: Democracy and Politics

8. The Left: Guerrillas and Social Movements

9. Women's Work: Gender Politics

10. Race Against Time: Indigenous Peoples

11. Thy Kingdom Come: The Church

12. Men at Arms: The Military

Back Matter - Faces of Latin America - 1st Edition (Into the Sixth Century, Further Reading, Index)