A People's History of Latin America

The history of Latin America has been written principally with a top-down approach that focuses on leaders and the privileged. Hernán Horna brings us a history that centers on the experience of Native Americans, blacks, and the poor. It examines the ongoing projects of identity and unity in Latin America through the lenses of ethnicity, culture, politics, and economics, from the ancient cultures of the Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs to the 21st century.

• Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
• I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
• Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
• United States of Banana
• Leaf Storm: and Other Stories (Perennial Classics)