Travelling With Che Guevara recounts Alberto Granado’s motorcycle journey across Latin America with the young man who would become its most celebrated revolutionary
Categories: Argentina, Caribbean, Cuba, South America
Category: Caribbean
Reviews from the Caribbean countries
Talking about my generation…
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Fidel Castro was a boy too, as Patrick Symmes reveals in this boisterous account of the Cuban leader’s school days
Not just a pretty face
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Salma Hayek leads in this biopic about the Mirabal sisters, whose murder by the brutal dictator Trujillo changed the Dominican Republic’s history
Categories: Caribbean, Dominican Republic
Spirits that spin
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When the Spirits Dance Mambo is a vivid autobiographical journey through the Puerto Rican diaspora in Spanish Harlem
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Between the sky and space
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Havana: Between the Sky and Heaven by Ruswel Piñeiro reads like a book of short stories with apparently little connection between them
Portrait of an era
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Rosa de Miami by Eduardo Belgrano Rawson is an epic novel about the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion whose many voices combine in symphonic triumph
Categories: Argentina, Caribbean, Cuba, South America
Avant-gardes under the knife
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The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America by Fernando Rosenberg takes a cultural studies scalpel to movements of modernity The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin AmericaFernando J. Rosenberg2006, The University of Pittsburgh Press211 pages Reviewed by Francisco Ferreira THE AUTHOR argues that the study of Latin American avant-gardes of the early twenty-century has traditionally focused…
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, North America, South America
Bolivarian broadside
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‘Based on a true story…’
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The Motorcycle Diaries re-enacts the journey that transformed Ernesto Guevara into Che, Latin America’s greatest revolutionary
Categories: Argentina, Caribbean, Cuba, South America