An authoritative and provocative reader on Latin America today which provides an overall view of the left-of-center movements, as well as a critique of the internal politics and economics of the continent. This collection of documents describes, in effect' the present state of the struggle to bring Latin America into the twentieth century before the rest of the world gets out of it. The contributors range from social scientists to social democrats and from left-wing Catholics to post-Mao Communists and Fidelista activists. What they have in common is a shared conviction that essential change--that is, revolution--in this society is inevitable in this century. Many of them are actively engaged in trying to bring it about.