Latin America

Lula: A People’s President and the Fight for Brazil’s FutureAndre Pagliarini. Cambridge: Polity, 2025. £15.99. 240 pp.Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold WarMila Burns. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. $29.95. 258 pp.China’s Overseas Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Debates and New Case StudiesEnrique Dussel Peters, ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2026. $39.95. 237 pp.Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press Since the 1980sAndrew Paxman. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. £34.95. 380 pp.Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy TransitionMark Goodale. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. £25.00/$29.95. 304 pp.