The Man Who Loved Dogs
The Man Who Loved Dogs

Author: Leonardo Padura

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0374201749

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Cuban writer Iván Cárdenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana Beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him 'the man who loves dogs'. The man eventually confesses that he is the man who murdered Leon Trotsky in Mexico.

Cuba and Its Neighbours
Cuba and Its Neighbours

Author: Arnold August

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781552664049

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In this groundbreaking book, Arnold August explores Cuba's unique form of democracy, presenting a detailed and balanced analysis of Cuba's electoral process and the state's functioning between elections. By comparing it with practices in the U.S., Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, August shows that people's participation in politics and society is not limited to a singular U.S.-centric understanding of democracy. For example, democracy as practised in the U.S. is largely non-participatory, static and fixed in time. Cuba, by contrast, is a laboratory where the process of democratization is continually in motion, an ongoing experiment to create new ways for people to participate. August argues forcefully for the need to develop mutual understanding of different political systems and, in doing so, to not be satisfied with either blanket condemnation or idealistic illusions, both resulting from a refusal to analyze the actual inner workings of each process. Visit www.democracycuba.com for more details.

Cuba's Digital Revolution
Cuba's Digital Revolution

Author: Ted A. Henken

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781683402022

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"This volume argues that recent technological developments are reconfiguring the cultural, economic, social, and political spheres of Cuba's Revolutionary project in unprecedented ways"--

Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America

Author: Gilles Carbonnier

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9004351671

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This 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. Highlighting propositions such as buen vivir, this thematic volume questions whether competing ideologies and discourses have translated into different outcomes, be it with regard to environmental sustainability, social progress, primary commodity dependence, or the rights of indigenous peoples. This collection of articles aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them. Contributors include: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Alberto Acosta, Ana Elizabeth Bastida, Luis Bustos, Humberto Campodónico, Gilles Carbonnier, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara, Fernando Eguren, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Eduardo García, Javier Herrera, Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Robert Muggah, Gianandrea Nelli Feroci, José Antonio Ocampo, Camilo Andrés Peña Galeano, Guillermo Perry, Darío Indalecio Restrepo Botero, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez, and Frédérique Weyer.