Forging Latin America: Profiles in Power and Ideas, 1492 to Today

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Introduction
I. COLONIAL
	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
II. NINETEENTH CENTURY
	7. Antonio López de 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
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 Sandino versus the United States
	17. Lázaro Cárdenas: “Nuestro Petróleo”
	18. Rafael Trujillo: “Our S.O.B.”
	19. José Carlos Mariátegui and Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre: Peru’s Long Revolution
IV. COLD WAR
	20. Juan and Eva Perón: 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: A Voice for the Voiceless
	35. Abimael Guzmán and Shining Path: The Philosophy of Terror
	36. Chico Mendes and Marina Silva: Defenders of the Amazon
V. POSTMODERN AGE
	37. Mario Vargas Llosa: Cartographies of Power
	38. Pablo Escobar: The First Drug Lord
	39. Subcommander Marcos: The First Postmodern Guerrilla
	40. Hugo Chávez: 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 Guardian of the River
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Index