Categories: Central America, Guatemala, North America, United States
Category: Guatemala
Some other hell
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Dirk Kruijt explores what drove Central America’s ‘guerrilla generation’ to war through their own words in a remarkable portrait of a bloody era
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua
Deflated balls
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In the Hands of the Gods would have scored highly in the feelgood league if the directors hadn’t missed some open goals
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, North America, South America, United States
The power of prayer
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Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America provides a valuable set of case studies on Protestant politics in five countries
Categories: Brazil, Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Peru, South America
The enigmatic drifter
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Ronald Flores traces the literary peregrinations of fellow Guatemalan novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa, arguably his country’s most well known and translated contemporary writer
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
A tale of torture
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Final Silence takes readers on a journey into the psychology of violence, bravely shining a light on the darkest recesses of the torturer’s mind
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens
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Global warning
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Transnational Conflicts constructs a potent theoretical model with which to explain the bloody turbulence of Central America since the 1980s
Categories: Central America, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
Legally blind
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The Guatemalan author Oswaldo Salazar burst on to the literary scene with From the Darkness, originally published in Spanish as Por el lado oscuro, recounting the story of a notorious murder in 1939. Piecing the crime together from newspaper reports culled from a press in thrall to the then authoritarian dictator Jorge Ubico, Salazar realised…
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Ripped off
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Ripped & Torn explores how Levi’s tries to convince Latin America’s fashion-hungry youth they need jeans, despite their shallow pockets
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela