Categories: Uncategorized
On the dark side
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From the Darkness, the debut novel of Oswaldo Salazar, now in English, is a masterful account of a true crime that shook Guatemala in 1939
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Balls to that
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El Diego is a runaway train of an autobiography in which the South American soccer genius Diego Maradona tells us his version of his life story
Categories: Argentina, South America
Grabbed by the collar
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El hombre de Montserrat by Dante Liano is a stylish bludgeon that forces the reader through a Guatemala crisscrossed by death squads
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Errands after death
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Cualquier forma de morir by Rafael Menjívar Ochoa is a fatal cocktail of death and corruption stirred vigorously with the blackest of humour
Categories: Central America, El Salvador
The two Fridas
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Julie Taymor’s Oscar-winning Frida is visually stunning but depicts the celebrated Mexican artist as a political invalid
Categories: Mexico, North America
Kid’s stuff
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Bullets whizz by liberally throughout Voces inocentes, but the casting remains completely off target
Categories: Central America, El Salvador
Navel gazing with a purpose
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Claudio Lomnitz joins a long tradition of anthropological reflection on the nature of the Mexican national idea in Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico
Categories: Mexico, North America
LatAmRoB, Volume 1, Number 3
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Categories: Uncategorized
Casa de caba
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Categories: Brazil, South America
