Rev. ed. of: Liberators and patriots of Latin America. c1991. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 Inacio Lula da Silva : Brazil's diminutive giant -- Hugo Chávez : elected leftist.
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