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The death of Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist and politician and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa marks the end of a golden age of Latin American literature. With his demise the Latin American ...
The 1960s literary movement travelled from Spanish and Portuguese to the English-speaking world on the back of acclaimed ...
Luther Castillo Harry, once a student at Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), now holds the position of Secretary ...
Brian Latell, WGBH Brian Latell, CIA analyst: Jack Kennedy considered Latin America the most dangerous area of the world. And he did because he feared the appeal that Fidel Castro had among the ...
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has held a meeting with three members of the US House of Representatives. The event was his first known meeting with US officials since he underwent emergency ...
At the Castro Centre, the mythical Fidel was ... defeated what was then one of the strongest armies in Latin America. A photograph of Fidel slinging his gun in the thickset of the mountains ...
The Boom fades
The Latin American Boom, a literary phenomenon that consisted of the Latin American narrative, spread throughout the world.
With a focus on human rights, US policy toward Latin America under Jimmy Carter ... a mass exodus of 125,000 Cubans to the United States, with Fidel Castro's blessing, created an unexpected ...