Plinio Mendoza, Carlos Montaner, and Alvaro Llosa are the authors of Los Fabricantes de Miseria. Mendoza lives in Bogota, Colombia; Montaner lives in Madrid; Llosa lives in Miami; and Michaela Ames lives in Ohio.

1 The Family Portrait
1
2 The Family Tree
9
3 The Idiots Bible
21
Its Their Fault
37
5 The CureThat Kills
63
6 Lets Create TwoThree One Hundred Vietnamso
77
An Old Love Is Neither Forgotten nor Abandoned
95
8 Rifles and Cassocks
107
9 Yankee Go Home
127
10 How Beautiful Is My Flag
141
11 The Idiots Friends
161
12 Here Comes the Big Bad Wolf
175
13 Ten BooksThat Shook the Latin American Idiot
183
Index Expurgatorius Latinoamericanus
209
About the Authors
219

Three Latin Americans team up to shred the slavish political correctness that they see dominating Latin American elites…. Exaggerated, even unfair at times, this book nevertheless provides a rollicking good read.