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A thorough introduction to the political and economic realities of Latin America today, drawn from the pages of Dollars & Sense and NACLA Report on the Americas. This timely anthology offers diverse perspectives on the profound economic and social transformations taking place in Latin America in recent years. The articles in this anthology chronicle the shifts in economic policy throughout the region, Latin American countries' varied relationships to the global economy, the dilemmas of economic development and environmental sustainability, power and conflict both within and between countries, and the past, present, and future of resistance and rebellion.