Table of Contents

First stop, the present coutnercurrents - a statistical protrait; encounter countercurrents - Friar Bartolome de las Casas; colonial crucible countercurrents - colonial rebellions; independence countercurrents - the gaze of outsiders; postcolonial blues countercurrents - the power of outsiders; progress countercurrents - more international wars; neocolonialism countercurrents - new immigration to Latin America; nationalism countercurrents - popular leaders of the twentieth century; revolution countercurrents - liberation theology; reaction countercurrents - La Violencia, Pablo Escobar and Colombia's long torment; neoliberalism.