Marc Becker

Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements

In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the...

Global Democracy and the World Social Forums

The World Social Forum quickly became the largest political gathering in human history and continues to offer a direct challenge to the extreme inequi...

Pachakutik

Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador

This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador. Leading scholar Marc Becker traces the gr...

The FBI in Latin America

The Ecuador Files

During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the ...

Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorians Facing the Twenty-First Century

The South American country of Ecuador provides a fascinating case study for understanding the construction and emergence of race and ethnic identities...

Contemporary Latin American Revolutions

Revolutions are a commonly studied but only vaguely understood historical phenomenon. Now updated to include the perspectives of grassroots revolution...

Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory

José Carlos Mariátegui, the Peruvian political theorist of the 1920s, was instrumental in developing an indigenous Latin American revolutionary Marx...

Twentieth-century Latin American Revolutions

This clear and concise text extends our understanding of revolutions with a critical narrative analysis of key Latin American examples. Each case stud...

The CIA in Ecuador

"The CIA in Ecuador turns to newly released CIA and other government surveillance documents to write a history of the Ecuadorian left between the Seco...

The CIA in Ecuador

Postwar Left -- CIA -- Coups -- Moscow Gold -- Divisions -- Transitions -- Populism -- Dissension -- Everyday Forms of Organization -- Communist Threa...

Rabbits Garden

Fables for Your 401(k)

Small business owners care about their employees and sponsoring a 401(k) to help all save for retiremeint is one of the best ways to show this. But 40...