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4) Bananas
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Absurd humor borders on insanity as a tester of strange gadgets quits his Manhattan job and flees to South America to eventually become leader of a mythical country.
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"Ernesto "Che" Guevara was a radical icon, an essential part of the Cuban Revolution whose legend continues to inspire new generations. Back on the Road chronicles his travels through Latin America once again (Otra Vez as it was titled in Spanish), showing the transition from The Motorcycle Diaries' youthful idealism into Che's later continental sense of justice and oppression; and culminating in his introduction to the man with whom he would translate...
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"This book continues the narrative begun by the author in the preceding volume. This new work provides a clear and readable description of military combat occurring in Latin America for the years 1948 to the start of 1982. Though concentrating on a combat narrative, matters of politics, business and international relations appear as necessary to understand the wars. The author draws on many previously unknown sources to provide information never before...
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At the start of the 1960s, revolution in the "Third World" challenged the established order, as discontent with the status quo fueled attempts to revoke colonialism and the strangleholds on power maintained by entrenched local oligarchies. This book examines the causes of revolution in Latin America in the sixties and the various responses crafted to stop it, in particular, the Alliance for Progress, a program which represented the best products of...
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"Provides a systematic comparative history of the rise and ultimate demise of the oligarchies that dominated Latin America for nearly a century"--Provided by publisher.
"In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class--the oligarchy--consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who were growing rich in a rapidly...
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