Carlos Oliva Campos
Carlos Oliva Campos teaches philosophy and history at The University of Havana. He formerly worked as a researcher at the Center for Study of the Americas and the Center for Study of the United States. For many years he served as executive director of the Association for the Unity of Our America, an NGO based in Havana. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Texas and John Hopkins University. He is the author, co-author and editor of numerous books including The Bush Doctrine and Latin America and Panamericanism and Neo PanAmericanism: The View from Latin America (with Gary Prevost); La situación actual en Cuba: desafíos y alternativas, and Relaciones internacionales en America Central y el Caribe durante los anos 80.
Books by Carlos Oliva Campos
Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America
Confrontation or Co-option?
Edited by Carlos Oliva Campos, Garry Prevost, Harry E. Vanden
In recent years, the simultaneous development of prominent social movements and the election of left and centre-left governments has radically altered the political landscape in Latin America. These social movements have ranged from the community based ‘piqueteros’ of Argentina that brought down three governments in the space of a month in 2001 to the indigenous movements in Ecuador and Bolivia that were instrumental in toppling five governments in the last decade. And in the cases of… (more information)