Emphasizing broad studies of Latin America, this series explores the central issues that confront the region today. The series includes both syntheses and cutting-edge research on the institutional, political, economic, and social forces that are shaping Latin America. Theoretically challenging, issue-oriented, cogently argued, often controversial, and always intellectually stimulating, books in the series will appeal to scholars, advanced students, and general readers alike.

Series Editor: Ronald H. Chilcote