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Notes on Graham Greene’s “Getting to Know the General”
Some four or five years after starting to read Graham Greene’s Getting To Know the General, I found the leisure to finish it on a trip to Brazil. Previously, I had brought a copy with me on a trip to Panama (the General of the book’s title is General Omar Torrijos, Panama’s military ruler [...]
Latin America’s turn to the left
NCM Online (though I’m not sure exactly what what that is) ran a reasonably good summary of the significance of Latin America’s currrent "turn to the left," the most recent evidence of which is Tabaré Vásquez’s victory in Uruguay’s presidential elections and the emergence of Mexico City’s leftist mayor López Obrador as the front-runner in [...]