Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Paradoxes of Latin American Development; 2 Latin America at the Crossroads: In the Vortex of Change; 3 Argentina: From Crisis and Rebellion to Growth and Pragmatic Neoliberalism; 4 Bolivia: Class Dynamics and Regime Politics; 5 Cuba: Continuing Revolution and New Contradictions; 6 Venezuela: Democracy, Socialism and Imperialism; 7 Back to the Future or Fastforward to the Past?; Bibliography