Peter Chapman’s Jungle Capitalists exposes the greed and treachery that characterised the rise of United Fruit
Categories: Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, North America, South America, United States
Category: Guatemala
Shipwreck of words
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Edmundo Urrutia’s Naufragio de las palabras is a perfect point of departure for a journey into literature about Guatemala’s civil war
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
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
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
The last taboo
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Another Face of Empire challenges myths about Bartolomé de Las Casas in a revisionist assessment that unmasks the imperial gift-giver
Categories: Central America, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama