Aspecter is haunting Latin America these days — a book that frontally attacks all of the sociological and economic foolishness that, until recently, kept the region at a developmental dead-end.
The book is a long pamphlet entitled Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano (Manual for the Perfect Latin American Idiot). Written by three ex-leftists, it is witty, incisive, fact-packed, and fun. What’s more, although released only in April, it has already sold 100,000 copies in more than a dozen countries, an astounding success for any non-fiction work in Spanish. (The book is not yet available in English.)
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