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Green Gold looks at the history and future prospects for the banana industry in four Caribbean islands: Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. It focuses on conditions for the small farmers and includes a study of Geest PLC, the company solely responsible for distributing Windward bananas in Britain.

This work portrays Latin America's peoples in their fight for a brighter future. It explores the region's economic crisis and the desecration of the environment. The author shows how injustice and conflict in the countryside have unleashed an exodus to the slums that encircle the major cities.

Cuba the Test of Time describes the mixture of achievement and obstacle that makes up modern Cuba, concentrating on the issues and dilemmas facing ordinary Cubans: availability of consumer goods, motivation at work, civil rights and decision-making and the country's involvement in war overseas.

Beyond the Lighthouse looks at a country where extreme poverty exists alongside a booming tourist industry. Where workers from neighbouring Haiti are literally enslaved in an almost bankrupt sugar industry. Where political leaders date back to a dictatorship which ended more than 30 years ago.

Patterns of Protest explains the basis of a poor country's struggle against its most powerful neighbours, and the predatory interests of global capitalism. It looks at the unique way that Boliva has united disparate populations - the urban working class and rural indigenous people - demanding that Bolivian natural resources benefit Bolivians first.

Available for the first time in English, this book presents the testimonies of the victims of Guatemala's 36 year long war. The 6500 personal testimonies which are the basis of the report were collected by 600 specially trained volunteers, and accounted for over 55,000 victims of the estimated 150,000 dead and disappeared during the conflict.

In this work, the author makes it clear that there is more to Mexico's environment than city smog. This book gives an account of the whole range of environmental problems which face Mexico's people, from tourist development to oil spills and land exhaustion. Setting his account against the backdrop of Mexico's history since the conquest, Joel Simon explores the connections between economic exploitation and the management of the environment. He records the results, such as Mexico City sinking as the finite water table is sucked dry, or the deforestation of the Chiapas jungle. As a combination of first-hand reporting and interviews and in-depth research, this work is a account of Mexico's own crisis of deforestation, water pollution and desertification which also points to the broader contradiction between economic models of development and a sustainable use of resources.

This is a first hand account of the most pressing social problems in Brazil: indigenous rights, street children, land and racism. Her activism, from her days as a favela organizer to national politician, reflects the most pressing concerns of Brazil's poor majority.

Caribbean Currents is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans - and traces its African, Asian and European roots. This book is oriented toward a few distinct yet overlapping sets of readers - music lovers and students of Caribbean society or of pan-American society in general

A war is sweeping across Latin America and the Caribbean. Not a military war but one that is punctuated by thousands of disputes over natural resources, environmental destruction, and pollution. Green Guerrillas profiles the people on the frontline of this environmental war, from indigenous groups and forest settlers to fishing communities, peasant farmers, flower workers, shanty-town activists, municipal governments, and many more. Whether urban or rural, local or national, these struggles show that defence of the environment is integral to the quest for basic human rights. Communities' imaginative and sustainable alternatives to the dominant development model are a key focus of the book's contributions. Green Guerrillas brings together leading environmental writers from both sides of the Atlantic, including Latin America. Vivid reports from the grassroots are combined with concise, hardhitting analysis of the continent's environmental movement in the 1990s.

This anthology looks at the AfroCuban experience through the eyes of the island's writers, scholars and artists. "A rich portrait of AfroCuba--one of the most vibrant and least well-documented of the black Caribbean diasporas."--Stuart Hall

This book contains topical articles covering the "levantamientos" of 1999 and 2000 and interviews with indigenous leaders to provide a unique insight into one of the strongest movements in Latin America. The selection of essays and background information on the problems facing indigenous people make this this a fascinating introduction to Ecuador.

Exploding the myth of the Great Navigator, the author reveals how Colombus accidentally found a continent and systematically pillaged its resources. This controversial book depicts a Columbus not only obsessed by gold but willing to endorse murder for it.

Rodolfo Walsh was a writer of crime novels, a tireless investigative journalist who uncovered real political crimes, an instant historian of a turbulent and violent era in Argentinian and Latin American politics.This is an account of Rudolfo Walsh's life. It includes extended excerpts from his varied writings.

An introduction to the history and current implications of the debt crisis, which positions debt in the wider context of globalisation and development. Deeper than Debt brings together a wide range of viewpoints to discuss the effects of economic globalisation on the lives of the poor majority in debtor countries. This primer text argues that, due to debt, four fifths of the world's population cannot develop while inequality between the rich and the poor grows. This book provides invaluable analysis for activists who have campaigned successfully with Jubilee 2000 and other campaigns, and for those wanting a deeper look at development and economic issues raised by international debt.Debt is a good thing - for creditors. In the current global economy, the debt owedby the poorest countries allows the richest to have enormous infl uence over mostSouthern economies. Such control is enforced via the International Monetary Fund,which requires poor countries to export raw materials at low prices, cut back onsocial spending on areas such as health and education, and to privatise nationalwealth - all to generate dollars to pay rich creditors. Debt means four fi fths of theworld 's population cannot develop, while inequality between the rich and poorgrows.Deeper than Debt brings together a wide range of arguments and views to examinethe effects of economic globalisation on the lives of the poor majority in debtorcountries, and how debt can illuminate the process of the ever-deepeninginequality between rich and poor.Deeper than Debt will provide invaluable analysis for debt activists who havecampaigned successfully with Jubilee 2000 and for those wanting a deeper look atthe development and economic issues raised by debt.George Ann Potter is an economic anthropologist with 20 years' experience ofdevelopment management and policy work. She lives and works in Bolivia whereshe is involved in the Jubilee 2000 campaign. She has written extensively on debt.including a book, Dialogue on Debt ( 1988).

Haiti’s dramatic history, pressing social problems and rich culture make it one of the most fascinating nations in the Americas. This book aims to reflect some of Haiti’s extraordinary diversity through the best of writing, both from and about the country. While many journalistic accounts are rapidly overtaken by events, this collection reveals the more deep-rooted reality of the ‘magic island’ and its people.