De Monroe a Trump. Del 'expansionismo estadunidense temprano' al 'imperialismo tardío'

Abstract

“America for the Americans,” or how the United States claims our Latin America as its own. In turbulent, violent, and dark times such as those currently experienced across Latin America and the Caribbean, our responsibility is to inform ourselves and to recover the works, authors, and arguments that indicate where to look and how to do so when possible paths forward seem increasingly foreclosed. The volume edited by José Guadalupe Gandarilla Salgado—enriched by contributors who position themselves and speak from “Our America”—becomes indispensable at a moment when propaganda, falsehood, and manipulation dominate spaces of communication and knowledge production. As Don Pablo González Casanova (1965) once suggested of critical scholarship, the book presents itself as a theoretical toolbox for confronting a turbulent and war-marked present. More broadly, the volume remains timely and clearly conveys the concerns of its contributors, while inviting readers to continue engaging with the questions that are deliberately left open.