Guide to the perfect Latin American idiot
By: Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alvaro Vargas Llosa ; introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Michaela Lajda Ames
Contributors: Montaner, Carlos Alberto; Vargas Llosa, Alvaro
Publisher: Madison Books; Distributed by National Book Network
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Latin America -- History; Latin America -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc
Work titles: Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano-- y español.
Description: Three disillusioned ex-leftists target many of Latin America's traditionally heroic icons, such as Castro, Che Guevara, Simón Bolívar, and the "popular church." They also target sentiments of victimization and anti-Americanism and the blissful ignorance of economics that have for years provided so many Latin Americans with faulty explanations for their miseries.