Description
Castro’s Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for place of work as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua’s Sandinistas were rejected on the polls by their very own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left? Or are they merely temporary lulls in an ongoing revolution that can yet develop into our hemisphere?
This perceptive and richly eventful study by certainly one of Mexico’s most distinguished political scientists tells the tale at the back of the failed movements of the past thirty years whilst suggesting that the left has a continuing relevance in a continent that suffers from destitution and social inequality. Combining insider’s accounts of intrigue and armed struggle with a clear-sighted analysis of the mechanisms of day by day power, Utopia Unarmed is an indispensable work of scholarship, reportage, and political prognosis.