Contemporary Latin American Social and Political Thought: An Anthology Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Preface     xi
Narratives of Resistance and Liberation
Massacre in Mexico (1971)   Elena Poniatowska     3
Taking to the Streets     3
The Night of Tlatelolco     14
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in guatemala (1983)   Rigoberta Menchu     32
Self-Defence in the Village     32
Attack on the Village by the Army     38
Political Activity in Other Communities: Contacts with Ladinos     44
Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila: A Woman of the Bolivian Mines (1977/1978)   Domitila Barrios de Chungara     50
At the International Women's Year Tribunal     50
Meetings with Exiles     57
Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos (1991)   Jose Ignacio Lopez Vigil     59
The General Offensive     59
Back to Basics     67
On to the Cities     72
Liberation Theology, Philosophy, and Pedagogy
Toward a Theology of Liberation (July 1968)   Gustavo Gutierrez     93
Church: Charism and Power: Liberation Theology and the Institutional Church (1981)   Leonardo Boff     107
The Church and the Struggle for Justice and the Rights of the Poor     107
TheViolation of Human Rights in the Church     116
The Base Ecclesial Community: A Brief Sketch     128
The Gospel in Solentiname (1975)   Ernesto Cardenal     137
The Song of Mary (Luke 1:46-55)     137
The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12)     141
Philosophy of Liberation (1980)   Enrique Dussel     148
Philosophy and Praxis     148
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970)   Paulo Freire     162
"Banking" vs. Problem-Posing Concepts of Education     163
Dependency Theory: The Political Economy of Latin America
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (1971)   Eduardo H. Galeano     175
The Thirteen Northern Colonies and the Importance of Not Being Born Important     176
Protectionism and Free Trade in the United States: A Success Due Not to an Invisible Hand     178
Bombardment by the International Monetary Fund Helps the Conquerors to Land     181
Technocrats are Better Hold-Up Artists Than Marines     183
The Organized Inequality of the World Market Is Unchanged by Industrialization     190
The Goddess Technology Doesn't Speak Spanish     194
Change and Development-Latin America's Great Task: Report Submitted to the Inter-American Development Bank (1970)   Raul Prebisch     200
Introduction     201
Dependency and Development in Latin America (1971)   Enzo Faletto   Fernando Henrique Cardoso     218
Comprehensive Analysis of Development     218
The Structure of Dependence (1970)   Theotonio Dos Santos     231
Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot (1996)   Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza   Carlos Alberto Montaner   Alvaro Vargas Llosa     240
We're Poor: It's Their Fault     241
Guerrilla Revolution and Socialist Utopia
Socialism and Man in Cuba (1965)   Ernesto "Che" Guevara     265
Problems and Principles of Strategy (1969)   Carlos Marighella     277
Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona (2005)$dZapatista Army of National Liberation [EZLN] (Founded in 1983)     282
From Socialist Revolution to Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Globalization: Post-Cold War Social and Political Thought
Cultures of Politics, Politics of Culture: Re-Visioning Latin American Social Movements (1998)   Evelina Dagnino     303
Culture, Citizenship, and Democracy: Changing Discourses and Practices of the Latin American Left     303
Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left After the Cold War (1993)   Jorge G. Castaneda     317
Reformulating Nationalism: Longitudinally and Regionally     317
The Market Turn Without Neoliberalism (1999)   Carlos Salinas de Gortari   Roberto Mangabeira Unger     340
The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism (1986)   Hernando de Soto     352
New Preface (2002)     352
Index     381
About the Editor     391