Bertussi briefly analyzes the poetry and fiction of several well-known 19th and 20th century Latin American writers to explore the role of literary texts in the liberation process and social transformation. At issue are the definitive, inspirational, galvanizing, informative, cathartic, and transformational powers of Latin American literature and legacy of poetry and fiction in Latin America. All these are recorded through the works of Argentinean poet Jose Hernandez (1834-1886), Chilean poet/writer Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), and Brazilian novelist Jose Lins Do Rego (1901-1957), and the still active literary figures of Peruvian writer/politician Mario Vargas Llosa, Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean novelist Isabel Allende. All are examined as agents of social transformation who identify and disseminate the human rights movements at work in their respective nations.