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In 1961, hundreds of thousands of Cubans together confronted a social problem that still concerns much of the world today - illiteracy. Through mass mobilizations, the country's students, teachers, workers and peasants achieved in one year what was apparently impossible: the goal of basic literacy for almost Cuba's entire population. Forty years later, this book rediscovers the energy, dedication and youthful spirit of those who participated in this brilliant literacy campaign in Cuba.

Esta obra analiza el impacto político y social de esta ola progresista sudamericana, aprovechando el diálogo con algunas de las figuras más influyentes de la región. Es un libro ameno y provocador a la vez, que desafía los paradigmas y algunas de las verdades sagradas impuestas en los últimos años.

In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of learning about Guatemala’s changing economy. For more than a decade, Liliana Goldín observed in highland towns both the intensification of various forms of production and their growing links to wider markets. In this first book to compare economic ideology across a range of production systems,...

El libro de Wayne Parsons ofrece uno de los más actualizados panoramas de los principales temas, cuestiones, corrientes, debates y marcos analíticos de la disciplina de Política Pública. Representa una contribución relevante a la evolución académica y profesional del análisis y diseño de políticas en nuestros países.