Kategoria BISAC: History >> Latin America - Central America

Luis, his mother, his wife, his in-laws, his children, and some neighbors recall in a simple and often eloquent manner their experiences of...

Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation is the first book to examine drug trafficking through Central America and the efforts of foreign and domestic law enforcement officials to counter it. Drawing on interviews, legal cases, and an array of Central American sources, Julie Bunck and Michael Fowler track the changing routes, methods, and networks involved, while comparing the evolution and consequences of the drug trade through Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama over a span of more than three decades. Bunck and Fowler argue that while certain similar factors have been...

Scientists have long speculated on the impact of extreme natural catastrophes on human societies. Archeology and Volcanism in Central America provides dramatic evidence of the effects of several volcanic disasters on a major civilization of the Western Hemisphere, that of the Maya.

During the past 2,000 years, four volcanic eruptions have taken place in the Zapotitan Valley of southern El Salvador. One, the devastating eruption of Ilopango around A.D. 300, forced a major migration, pushing the Mayan people north to the Yucatan Peninsula. Although later eruptions did not have...

This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the tools of ethnography, history, cartography, and ecology to explore the recurring enclosures of Guatemala's second largest indigenous group, who number a million strong. Having lost most of their highland territory to foreign coffee planters at the end of the 19th century, Q'eqchi' people began migrating into the lowland forests of northern Guatemala and...

La vida del inmigrante es una vida muy significativa; y para esa tarea sumamente importante fue disenado este libro, el cual nos invita a descubrir al "humano inmigrante." Es un libro lleno de chispa y sensaciones que reflejan la vida del inmigrante con historias reales, narradas por el autor en un lenguaje practico, de una manera sencilla y coloquial, y sin afiliacion politica alguna. Leonel Vicente Vicente es un indocumentado como todos los ilegales que han vivido en carne propia esta experiencia en los Estados Unidos y por lo tanto, su narrativa se basa en hechos reales, no en relatos...

La vida del inmigrante es una vida muy significativa; y para esa tarea sumamente importante fue disenado este libro, el cual nos invita a descubrir al "humano inmigrante." Es un libro lleno de chispa y sensaciones que reflejan la vida del inmigrante con historias reales, narradas por el autor en un lenguaje practico, de una manera sencilla y coloquial, y sin afiliacion politica alguna. Leonel Vicente Vicente es un indocumentado como todos los ilegales que han vivido en carne propia esta experiencia en los Estados Unidos y por lo tanto, su narrativa se basa en hechos reales, no en relatos...

Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's most visible manifestation. The old school buses are imported from the United States and provide public transportation in Colon and Panama City. Their owners hire the artists to attract customers with eye-catching depictions of singers and actors, brassy phrases, and vivid representations of both...