BOOKSTORE | Latin American Studies
Allies Across the Border (paper)
Mexico's “Authentic Labor Front” and Global SolidarityDale Hathaway
Released 2000-01-01
This first book on Mexico’s pioneer independent labor federation, the Authentic Labor Front (the FAT), shows how activists are gaining strength in coalition with their “allies across the border.”
Bananeras (paper)
Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin AmericaDana Frank
Released 2005-09-29
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity.
Blood on the Border (paper)
A Memoir of the Contra WarRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Released 2005-11-01
Drawing on her experiences during the US-Contra war in Nicaragua, noted memoirist and historian Dunbar-Ortiz draws conclusions about contemporary US aggression. She recalls CIA disinformation, contra violence, and US government manipulation of human rights and solidarity organizations.
Break-ins, Death Threats, and the FBI (paper)
The Covert War Against the Central America MovementRoss Gelbspan
Released 1991-01-01
Using extensive interviews with a Salvadoran American FBI employee, Pulitzer Prize- winning investigative journalist Ross Gelbspan documents the wide-ranging FBI assault on the Central America solidarity movement and other political dissidents.
