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Politics and government, Patriotism, Revolutionaries, Politicians, Leadership, Heroes, Heads of state, Biography, HistoryPlaces
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Liberators, patriots, and leaders of Latin America: 32 biographies
2010, McFarland & Co., Publishers
in English
- 2nd ed.
0786442840 9780786442843
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Doña Marina (La Malinche) : mother of conquest
Pierre François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture : commander of a slave army
Simón Bolívar : liberator of the North
Manuela Sáenz : spirit of the liberation
José de San Martín : liberator of the South
Bernardo O'Higgins : Chile's Irish liberator
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento : educator of a continent
Pedro I and Pedro II, Brazil's emperors : divine right and democracy
José Martí : revolutionary poet
Benito Juárez : builder of democracy
Pancho Villa : political warrior
Emiliano Zapata : Indian reformer
Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza, and Hermila Galindo de Topete : women of the Mexican Revolution
Augusto Sandino : the visionary versus the Marines
Juan Perón : monarch of the working class
María Eva Duarte de Perón : angel of the "shirtless ones"
José Figueres : at the center of Latin America
Fidel Castro : socialist revolutionary
Ernesto "Che" Guevera : existential rebel
Bishop Romero : modern martyr
Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet : Ariel and Caliban
César Chávez : Hispanic Spartacus
Vicente Fox : breaking the political mold
Néstor Kirchner Ostoic and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner : Peronist pair
Daniel Ortega Saavedra : Sandino redux
Luís Inácio Lula da Silva : Brazil's diminutive giant
Hugo Chávez : elected leftist.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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