Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner Cuban journalist, writer, and politician, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Michaela Ames (Translator)

Overview

Three Latin American writers quote, dissect and review this character in a cultural critique that combines analysis with humor and a relentless self-criticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568331348
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/12/2000
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.44(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

	Translator's Notes	ix
	Translator's Acknowledgments	xi
	Foreword	xiii
1.	The Family Portrait	1
2.	The Family Tree	9
3.	The Idiot's Bible	21
4.	We're Poor: It's Their Fault	37
5.	The Cure That Kills	63
6.	"Let's Create Two, Three, One Hundred Vietnams"	77
7.	Cuba: 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 Idiot's Friends	161
12.	Here Comes the Big Bad Wolf!	175
13.	The Books That "Shook" the Latin American Idiot	183
	Index Expurgatorius Latinoamericanus	209
	About the Authors	219

Editorial Reviews

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.

Foreign Affairs

Deeply iconoclastic…. It is a valuable work of historical conservation…it succeeds admirably.

The New Criterion