James Dunkerley is director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous books include Rebellion in the Veins: Political Struggle in Bolivia, 1952-1982 (1984); Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America (1987); Political Suicide in Latin America (1992); and Americana: The Americas in the World, around 1850 (2000).