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'Oscar Guardiola-Rivera has written a smart, original, provocative, and timely book. He analyzes and pushes beyond the recent leftward turn in Latin American politics and in so doing he offers a hopeful new genealogy of the globalized present' Marcus Rediker 'Remarkable, stimulating and illuminating, What if Latin America Ruled the World? is unlike anything I've ever read ... a breathless rollercoaster ride that also offers a brilliantly creative approach to history and geography' Gerald Martin, author of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life 'Puts the solutions to the current economic crisis of the rich world into their proper global perspective' Richard Gott, Guardian 'Kaleidoscopic ... enriching ... this is an ambitious book with an ambitious agenda' David Goldblatt, Independent
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For most Europeans and Americans, Latin America is still little more than their underdeveloped sibling, its inhabitants pitching up on its shores or struggling across the Rio Grande into the USA. It's a place of exuberant music, mesmerising football, extravagant beauty, fantastic literature, drug trafficking and guerrilla warfare - in short, exotic, dangerous and exciting. In this counterintuitive and fascinating book, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, who teaches international Law and International Affairs at London University, shows how, unafraid to turn its back on some commonly held economic views that have now lost their currency, Latin America is in fact making its presence felt from Lima to Shanghai, from Brazilia to London and from Buenos Aires to New York. While the world acknowledges the continuing importance of the US in international affairs, few people have noticed that with Spanish language and culture in the ascendant the US is quietly but quickly becoming the next Latin American country. In fact, Guardiola-Rivera argues, the next Barack Obama is as more than likely to be of Latino origin. Both a hidden history of the modern world from the silver peso (the world's first truly global currency) to the recent shift away from globalism and an imaginative vision rooted in a sure understanding of the past, "What If Latin America Ruled the World?" is certain to provoke interest and controversy.
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Latin America is currently doing very well for the first since the 1960's but the author's assertion that somehow Latin America speaks as one voice is incorrect. Although they so seem to agree on common issues each nation has a national identity all it's own. Italian immigrants for example left a huge imprint on the national character of Argentina and Uruguay in a manner seen nowhere else in the Americas except the USA. Latin America still has a long way to go before an important area like the EU. Rampant corruption, failed educational systems, appalling crime rates to name a few are major obstacles these nation's face. The sunami of desperate illegal aliens that has hit the USA in recent years are the living proof that there are still severe problems across the Americas. For the author to say Latin America can lead the world is very premature.
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