An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba's revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout Central and South America were toppled in U.S.-backed military coups, and by 1977 only three democratically elected leaders remained in all of Latin America. This perceptive study, coauthored by a revered historian and a prominent economist, examines how the military rulers of Brazil profoundly altered the nation's economy, politics, and society during their two decades in power, and it explores the lasting impact of these changes after democracy was restored. Comparing and contrasting the history, programs, methods, and goals of Brazil's Cold War-era authoritarian government with the military regimes of Peru, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay, authors Herbert Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna offer a fascinating, detailed analysis of the Brazilian experience from 1964 to 1985, one of the darkest, most difficult periods in Latin American history.
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Program and schedule of events for the 50th annual Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, California, 2017.

• Fidel : reflexiones económicas / Ramón Labañino Salazar
• ¡Fidel, patrimonio de la humanidad! / Luciano Vasapollo, Rita Martufi y Valter Lorenzi
• El humanismo como centro del pensamiento económico de Fidel Castro / Oscar Luis Hung Pentón y Oneida Álvarez Figueroa
• Breves palabras sobre el pensamiento revolucionario del comandante en jefe de la Revolución cubana Fidel Castro Ruz / Orlando Borrego Díaz
• El pensamiento económico de Fidel Castro sobre las relaciones económicas internacionales : el socialismo como condición para el desarrollo / José Luis Rodríguez
• En torno al pensamiento económico de Fidel Castro : un enfoque metodológico / Efraín Echevarría Hernández
• Fidel y las transnacionales / Gladys Cecilia Hernández Pedraza
• Fidel Castro Ruz : economía del conocimiento, augurios y realizaciones / Jorge Rodríguez Hernández
• La potencia de un lucero en la era de la globalización neoliberal / Marta Beatriz Nicanovich Cingolani
• Pensamiento económico de Fidel Castro sobre energía y medioambiente : contexto internacional / Ramón Pichs Madruga
• Fidel y las relaciones comerciales / Jonathan Quirós Santos
• No habrá más estatuas : ¡yo soy Fidel! / Arleen Rodríguez Derivet
• Fidel : su legado / Atilio A. Boron
• Fidel en la Plaza Cadenas / Pedro Pablo Rodríguez
• La segunda victoria de Girón / Eugenio Suárez Pérez
• Conversando con Luciano Vasapollo.

Interviews with Mariela Castro, Ricardo Alarcón, Max Lesnik, Miguel Barnet, Eusebio Leal, Abel Prieto, Alfredo Guevara, Wayne S. Smith, Jean-Pierre-Bel, and Álvaro Colom.