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Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America

By (author) Enrique Krauze

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In Redeemers, acclaimed historian Enrique Krauze presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries--and looks closely at how these ideas were expressed in the lives of influential revolutionaries, thinkers, poets, and novelists. Here are the Cuban JosÃ© MartÃ; the Argentines Che Guevara and Evita PerÃ³n; political thinkers like Mexico's JosÃ© Vasconcelos; and the writers JosÃ© Enrique RodÃ³, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez. Redeemers also highlights Mexico's Samuel Ruiz and Subcomandante Marcos, as well as Venezuela's president Hugo ChÃ¡vez, and their influence on contemporary Latin America. In his brilliant, deeply researched history, Enrique Krauze uses the range of these extraordinary lives to illuminate the struggle that has defined Latin American history: an ever-precarious balance between the ideal of democracy and the temptation of political messianism.