Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. This book examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples' lives far outside the region.

List of Figures INTRODUCING THE GLOBAL SQUARE BOOK SERIES Matthew Gutmann and Jeffrey Lesser Acknowledgments Chasing Che: Introduction to Global Latin America Jeffrey Lesser and Matthew Gutmann PART ONE: THE LATIN AMERICAN PAST IN THE GLOBAL PRESENT Introduction 1 • Looking at the Past and the Future without Fear: An Interview with Ricardo Lagos Matthew Gutmann 2 • The Conversion of Francis: The First Latin American Pope and the Women He Needs Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Jennifer Scheper Hughes 3 • Fidel Castro: The First Superdelegate Greg Grandin Poem: “Cruces de fronteras / Border Crossings” Renato Rosaldo 4 • From Illustrating Problems to Offering Solutions: Latin America as a Global Source of Social Innovation Gabriel Hetland and Peter Evans Manga: “Che Guevara” Kiyoshi Konno and Chie Shimano PART TWO: TONGUES AND FEET Introduction 5 • Borges’s Library: Latin America, Language, and the World Paja Faudree and Daniel Suslak 6 • Love, Protest, Dance, Remix Michelle Bigenho Poem: “Lo prohibido” Renato Rosaldo 7 • Breaking the Machine: South American Fútbol Brenda Elsey 8 • Roy Choi, Ricardo Zárate, and Pacific Fusion Cuisine in Los Angeles Sarah Portnoy and Jeffrey M. Pilcher PART THREE: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH Introduction 9 • The Rise of Brazil’s Globally Connected Amazon Soybean Agriculture Christopher Neill and Marcia N. Macedo 10 • Constructing Parallels: Brazilian Experts in Mozambique Wendy Wolford and Ryan Nehring Poem: “Perfecto Flores” Renato Rosaldo 11 • A Long Strange Trip: Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture Paul Gootenberg PART FOUR: COMMUNITIES Introduction Introduction to Rigoberta Menchú Tum 12 • Nobel Lecture Rigoberta Menchú Tum 13 • Sex Worker Activism and Labor Denise Brennan Poem: “Ajustes familiares / Family Adjustments” Renato Rosaldo 14 • Latin American Travel: The Other Side of Tourism Encounters Florence E. Babb 15 • Brazil Circles the Globe Ruben George Oliven PART FIVE: ART MOVES THE WORLD Introduction 16 • The Latin American Novel as International Merchandise Ilan Stavans 17 • Traveling Melodrama: Telenovelas and Exporting Southern Moralities; or, How Can Something So Bad Still Be So Good? O. Hugo Benavides Poem: “Los invisibles / Invisibility” Renato Rosaldo 18 • The Girl from Shinjuku: How a Japanese Brazilian Diva Keeps Bossa Nova Alive in China Fabiano Maisonnave 19 • “More than a Nationality”: An Interview with Gael García Bernal about Latin American Cinema and the World Alma Guillermoprieto About the Editors and Contributors Index

"Latin America is rarely at the center of conversations about globalization, but this book may change that. Global Latin America is an interdisciplinary, border-defying anthology that explores the politics and poetics of globalization from a Latin American perspective. With its ties to both the Atlantic and Pacific worlds, Latin America has long been a cultural crossroads, and this volume demonstrates in a most compelling way that region is also a crucial site for understanding our global present."—Barbara Weinstein, author of The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil  "Matthew Gutmann and Jeffrey Lesser are a dream team: senior scholars with international reputations who are among the most innovative in their disciplines. Global Latin America offers a superb sampling of the cutting edge in connecting approaches across subfields, such as gender studies, Latin American Studies, ethnic studies, and area studies."—Jerry Dávila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair in Brazilian History, University of Illinois, and author of Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980 "The list of authors included in Global Latin America is incredibly impressive and offers the book considerable luster. From two top-notch editors, the volume is the perfect book for class use in a variety of settings—both as a foundational text in Latin American Studies courses as well as for journalists, policy-makers, and anyone else interested in the region."—Miguel Angel Centeno, author of State Making in the Developing World