Liberators, Patriots, and Leaders of Latin America: 32 Biographies (2nd edition)

This second edition of freelance journalist Jerome R. Adams's Liberators, Patriots, and Leaders of Latin America, like the first one, which sought to “bring Latin American heroes out of the shadow cast over them outside their own region”, expands the coverage to include political leaders up to the twenty‐first century. Adams's original edition was a collection of 23 biographical essays covering noted (and controversial) Latin Americans from Doña Marina (La Malinche) who aided the Spanish in their conquest of the Aztecs to the martyred Bishop Romero of El Salvador (1917‐1980), but the new volume includes the entries on key...