Latin America

By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob....

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans....

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.

Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world - one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet....

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare....

Exploraremos desde el contacto precolombino hasta la conquista europea, la colonización y la posterior independencia de América Latina. Seguiremos el cataclismo del choque de civilizaciones cuando hombres como Hernán Cortés y Francisco Pizarro hicieron la guerra a los aztecas e incas.

Havana Nocturne takes listeners back to Cuba in the years when it was a veritable devil's playground for mob leaders Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano....

Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color....

In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino culture since the 1960s that has challenged this omission in collective memory....

Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, business people, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion....