Introduction
PART I: Colonial Latin America
1: Amerigo Vespucci: “Half the world baptized with his dishonest name”
2: Bartolomé de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
3: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Latin America’s First Feminist
4: Túpac Amaru II and the Great Andean Rebellion
5: Toussaint Louverture: The Black Spartacus of the Caribbean
6: Simón Bolívar: The Great Liberator, Flawed Emancipator
PART II: Nineteenth Century
7: Santa Anna: The Hero Who Lost Half a Country
8: Benito Juárez: Mexico’s Great Reformer
9: Juan Manuel de Rosas and Domingo Sarmiento: The Struggle to Hatch Argentina
10: Dom Pedro II: Brazil’s Citizen Monarch
11: José Martí: The Colossus of Cuba
PART III: First-Half of the Twentieth Century
12: José Enrique Rodó: Ariel and a New Vision for Latin America
13: José Vasconcelos: The Mexican Revolution’s Cultural Caudillo
14: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo: Passion, Paint, and Politics
15: Berta Lutz: Brazil’s Frog-Loving Feminist
16: Augusto César Sandino vs the United States
17: Lázaro Cárdenas: “Nuestro Petróleo”
18: Rafael Trujillo: “Our S.O.B.”
19: José Carlos Mariátegui, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre: Peru’s Long Revolution
PART IV: Cold War
20: Juan and Eva: Peronism’s Dynamic Duo
21: Rómulo Betancourt: Titan of Democracy
22: Jacobo Árbenz: A Guatemalan Spring, Interrupted
23: Fidel Castro: A Rebel with a Cause
24: Ernesto Guevara: Becoming Che
25: Manuel Marulanda: Founding Father of the FARC
26: Salvador Allende: “All Things to All Men”
27: Augusto Pinochet: The Unlikely Model Dictator
28: Eduardo Galeano: Poet of History
29: Gabriel García Márquez: Magical versus Social Realism
30: Óscar Romero: Priest, Saint, Revolutionary
31: The Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo: Despair, Resistance, and Remembrance
32: Becoming Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio and the Dirty War
33: Efraín Ríos Montt: From God to Genocide
34: Rigoberta Menchú: Voice for the Voiceless
35: Abimael Guzmán and Shining Path: The Philosophy of Terror
36: Chico Mendes and Marina da Silva: Defenders of the Amazon
PART V: Post-Modern Age
37: Mario Vargas Llosa: Cartographies of Power
38: Pablo Escobar: The First Drug Lord
39: Subcommander Marcos: The First Post-Modern Guerrilla
40: Hugo Chavez: The Richest Revolutionary in the World
41: Yoani Sánchez: Cuba’s Underground Revolutionary
42: Michelle Bachelet: Healing Chile
43: Evo Morales: Reclaiming Bolivia
44: José “Pepe” Mujica: From Communism to Chrysanthemums
45: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: Brazil’s First Working Class President
46: Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo: Nicaragua’s Toxic Power Couple
47: Berta Cáceres : The Martyred Guardian
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