Gavin O’Toole has taught Latin American politics and democratic theory at Queen Mary, University of London and was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at London’s Institute for the Study of the Americas. He is also a publisher and journalist and is the author of The Reinvention of Mexico (forthcoming) and the co-editor of Che in Verse (2007).

"This is a volume which will become invaluable to those attempting to guide the neophyte through the maze of politics in Latin America"