< Articles >

The Centralism of 'Twenty-First-Century Socialism': Recentralising Politics in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia / Kent Eaton ... 421

The 2012 Presidential Election and What It Reveals About Mexican Voters / Roderic Ai Camp ..... 451

Wavering Courts: From Impunity to Accountability in Uruguay / Elin Skaar ...... 483

Cutting off the Dictator: The United States Arms Embargo of the Pinochet Regime, 1974-1988 / John R. Bawden ...... 513

'These Industrial Forests': Economic Nationalism and the Search for Agro-Industrial Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Brazil / Teresa Cribelli ........ 545

< Book Reviews >

Luis Bértola and José Antonio Ocampo, The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence, reviewed by Victor Bulmer-Thomas  .... 581

Moramay López-Alonso, Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850-1950, reviewed by Jeffrey Bortz .... 582

Manuel Llorca-jaña, The British Textile Trade in South America in the Nineteenth Century, reviewed by Robert G. Greenhill  .......  584

Julio Djenderedjian, Sílcora Bearzotti and Juan Luis Martirén, Historia del capitalismo agrario pampeano, vol. 6: Expansión agrícola y colonialización en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, books 1 and 2, reviewed by Eduardo Míguez ... 586

José Antonio Sánchez Román, Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century in Argentina, reviewed by Fernando Rocchi .... 588

Darlene J. Sadlier, Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II by THOMAS O'BRIEN ....593

Thomas C. Mills, Post-War Planning on the Periphery: Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy in South America, 1939–1945 by PHILLIP DEHNE ....595

Mats Lundahl, Poverty in Haiti: Essays on Underdevelopment and Post Disaster Prospects by PAUL SUTTON ....597

Lillian Guerra, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959–1971 by TANYA HARMER ...599

Tomás Guzaro and Terri Jacob McComb, Escaping the Fire: How an Ixil Mayan Pastor Led His People Out of the Holocaust during the Guatemalan Civil War by GAVIN WESTON ....601

Katherine Isbester (ed.), The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America: Ten Country Studies of Division and Resilience by  FRANCISCO PANIZZA ....602

John Crabtree (ed.), Fractured Politics: Peruvian Democracy Past and Present by DAVID SCOTT PALMER....604

Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens, Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America by ANTHONY HALL ....606

Claudio A. Holzner, Poverty of Democracy: The Institutional Roots of Political Participation in Mexico by ALBERTO J. OLVERA ....607

Edward J. McCaughan, Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán by BRUCE CAMPBELL ....609

Miguel Carter (ed.), Combatendo a desigualdade social: o MST e a reforma agrária no Brasil by CLIFFORD ANDREW WELCH ....611

Merike Blofield, Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America by KATHERINE EVA MAICH ....613

Karen Ann Faulk, In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina by SILVIO WAISBORD ....615

Nell Farrell, Nicaragua Before Now: Factory Work, Farming, and Fishing in a Low-Wage Global Economy by JON HELLIN ....617

Julie Marie Bunck and Michael Ross Fowler, Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation: Drug Trafficking and the Law in Central America by CHARLES D. BROCKETT ....619

Peter Watt and Roberto Zepeda, Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy by AMI C. CARPENTER .... 620

George W. Grayson, Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State? by Tony Payan .... 622

Villar Oliver and Drew Cottle, Cocaine, Death Squads and the War on Terror: U. S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia by ELVIRA MARIA RESTREPO ...624

Gareth A. Jones and Dennis Rodgers (eds.), Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective by Mo Hume .... 626

Daniel M. Goldstein, Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City by ANDERS BURMAN .... 628

Dennis Rodgers, Jo Beall and Ravi Kanbur (eds.), Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City by ALAN GILBERT .... 630

Adriana Premat, Sowing Change: The Making of Havana's Urban Agriculture by JOSEPH L. SCARPACI .... 632

Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell, The Right to the City: Popular Contention in Contemporary Buenos Aires by JAVIER AUYERO .... 634