USSOUTHCOM Reading List

(source) The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), located in Miami, Florida, is one of ten unified Combatant Commands (COCOMs) in the Department of Defense. It is responsible for providing contingency planning, operations, and security cooperation for Central and South America, the Caribbean (except U.S. commonwealths, territories, and possessions), Cuba; as well as for the force protection of U.S. military resources at these locations. SOUTHCOM is also responsible for ensuring the defense of the Panama Canal and canal area.

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The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier

Amy Wilentz

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Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan

Hugh Thomas

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Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond, Fifth Edition Rev.

Jaime Suchlicki

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Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition

Thomas E. Skidmore

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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies)

Stephen Schlesinger

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History of the Conquest of Peru (Dodo Press)

William H. Prescott

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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

David McCullough

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After Fidel, Updated Edition: Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's Revolution

Brian Latell

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Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History

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THE BURIED MIRROR

Carlos Fuentes

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The Conquest of New Spain

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

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Memoirs

Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

Armando Valladares

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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

Carlos Eire

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The Saddest Country: On Assignment In Colombia

Nicholas Coghlan

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The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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Political and Military Science

The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose

Tony Zinni

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The Future of Freedom

Fareed Zakaria

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Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives

David (ed.) Pion-Berlin

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The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela

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Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar): A Life

Prof. John Lynch

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In the Eagle's Shadow: The United States and Latin America

Kyle Longley

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Economics and Globalism

Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What The U.S. Must Do

Andres Oppenheimer

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Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

Mendoza/Montaner/Llosa

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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

Franklin Foer

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United States and the Americas: A Twenty-First Century View

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Doing Business in the New Latin America: A Guide to Cultures, Practices, and Opportunities

Thomas H. Becker

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Faction and Historical Fiction

La Fiesta Del Chivo/The Feast of the Goat (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)

Mario Vargos Llosa

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The News from Paraguay

Lily Tuck

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Imagining Argentina

Lawrence Thornton

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A Way in the World: A Novel

V. S. Naipaul

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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

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El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Times of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The General in His Labyrinth

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature)

Miguel Angel Asturias

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Gabriela, clavo y canela (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)

Jorge Amado

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Ines of My Soul: A Novel

Isabel Allende

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General

Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

Thomas McFadden

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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest

Mark J. Plotkin

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