After years of anti-immigrant backlash, anger seethes in the nation's Latino communities. The crowded streets bristle with restless youth, idled by...
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Aug 01, 2011
Phil
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Some Mexicans and Mexican-Americans," writes John Tiffany, "want to see California, New Mexico and other parts of the United States given to Mexico. They call it the 'reconquista,' Spanish for 'reconquest,' and they view the millions of Mexican illegal aliens entering this country as their army of invaders to achieve that takeover." Tiffany points out that, as we've heard in recent news reports, armed Mexican soldiers (in league with or impersonated by drug traffickers, we are tol
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Dec 06, 2010
Rose
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This is Raul Ramos y Sanchez' debut novel and it is packed with suspense!
As the immigration crisis reaches the boiling point, once-peaceful Latino protests explode into rioting. Cities across the nation are in flames. Anglo vigilantes bent on revenge launch drive-by shootings in the barrios, wantonly killing young and old. Exploiting the turmoil, a congressional demagogue succeeds in passing legislation that transforms the nation’s teeming inner-city barrios into walled-off Quarantin More...
As the immigration crisis reaches the boiling point, once-peaceful Latino protests explode into rioting. Cities across the nation are in flames. Anglo vigilantes bent on revenge launch drive-by shootings in the barrios, wantonly killing young and old. Exploiting the turmoil, a congressional demagogue succeeds in passing legislation that transforms the nation’s teeming inner-city barrios into walled-off Quarantin More...
Aug 04, 2010
Hattie
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"America Libre" by Raul Ramos Y Sanchez is a page turner. From the moment I picked it up, I didn't want to do anything but finish it. This is the story about Hispanics in America. Like all people the Hispanics yearn for the right to live ordinary lives like other citizens. To be treated differently erases all their human dignity.
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Apr 30, 2010
Dom
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Frankly, when I first picked up America Libre I didn’t know what to expect. I suspected it might be very militant and inflammatory in its perspective; a call for violent revolution. But actually, quite the opposite is true. America Libre is a passionate cry for tolerance, understanding and moderation. Raul Ramos y Sanchez’s saga is a plea for justice and sanity…and perhaps most of all, a sobering cautionary tale. It urges us all to remember the genuine principles upon which our great nation was
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May 03, 2011
Eddie
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Reviews, reviews, reviews...oh, how I loathe you. But ironically, love to read them that are written by others. So, where do I start with this book? I never really know what makes me get through a mediocre book and then get to the end not really feeling much of anything. I guess, like most of our lives, that's what mediocrity is, right? Not feeling much of anything. That wasn't nice to say, but this book left me feeling just that. Nothing really.
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Nov 06, 2011
Amanda
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Scarily realistic scenarios of a life in the next decade for people of Hispanic descent. I really liked the warfare descriptions, the reminder that not all Hispanic people are the same generic stereotype. I am dismayed a bit by the representations of women in this book. They are all two dimensional, and I am not a fan of that. I did like the ideas this book brought forward, but I think that if it had focused on the political and military side instead of the two-dimensional people throughout, it
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Mar 10, 2010
Victor
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I don't usually write reviews, I read them. However, I don't necessarily believe that America Libre was such a good read, or even a tolerable one for that matter. The book was not very well written, as the characters were very one-dimensional and predictable. The protagonist who is a handsome war hero who has noble intentions made without a single flaw making him someone difficult to relate too. He is too good and the antagonists too evil, having no room for gray areas. The "revolution"
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Dec 29, 2009
Teresa
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Sad thing is..., I believe this is a possible outcome of the current immigration issue and the inability of US leaders to discuss it effectively and positively, as well as the society's fear for the unfamiliar and hesitation to explore the unknown.
Nov 30, 2010
Consuelo
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I really liked this book once I got past some of his cheesy physical descriptions of people. It was an interesting view on the future and oddly plausible. His foreboding is intense.
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