Alain Labrousse
Alain Labrousse (19 February 1937 – 6 July 2016) was a French sociologist and journalist. He specialized in Latin American politics and the geopolitics of drugs. Biography He was born in Libourne in the Gironde. He studied literature in Bordeaux, then sociology at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. After his doctorate, he taught at the French lycée in Montevideo for five years (1965–1970), at a time when the political situation in Uruguay was growing restive. Labrousse drew on this experience to write his first work on urban guerrilla warfare, ''Les Tupamaros'' (Seuil, 1971). The book was translated in English and was published by Penguin Books as part of their Pelican Latin American Library series. It was updated in 2009, on the eve of the ascension to power of José Mujica, the former guerrilla leader. Labrousse lived in Latin America for two decades, with a two-year break in Morocco (1969–1971). Selected publications He wrote numerous books on Latin America, among t ...
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