Even grief is contested in postwar Central America. Specters of War: The Battle of Mourning in Postconflict Central America, Ignacio Sarmiento, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala
Tag: Civil war
Atrocious backstories
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A journalist chronicles how democratic dreams became bloody nightmares. The Years of Blood: Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America, Alma Guillermoprieto, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Bolivia, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, South America, United States, Venezuela
War without end
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Megaprojects are just the latest destructive incursions into Maya land. The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala, Giovanni Batz, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
The imperial infection
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Neocolonial conflict shapes the pathology of leishmaniasis. Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia, Lina Pinto-García, 2025, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Colombia, South America
What the FARC?
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Women and girls have been the silent victims of Colombia’s conflict, exploited and abused by left-wing guerrillas as much as their enemies. Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood, Paula Delgado-Kling, 2024, Evergreen Review/OR Books
Categories: Canada, Colombia, North America, South America, United States
Despicable trade
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Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala, Rachel Nolan, 2024, Harvard University Press
Categories: Central America, Europe, Guatemala, International, North America, United States