Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America
by Tina Rosenberg
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An honest judge in Medellin, a Maoist guerilla of Peru's Shining Path, the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina's Dirty War, the pool-party rich of El Salvador, the disabused revolutionaries of Nicaragua, and the ordinary Chileans who became silent partners in Pinochet's dictatorship--these people live in Latin America, but their stories illuminate the human face of violence all over the world. Tina Rosenberg spent five years trying to understand their world and learning to live with show more these "children of Cain." Their stories are disturbing precisely because these people are not monsters; the faces in Children of Cain are not those of strangers. show lessTags
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It's too bad that this great book is subtitled "Violence and the Violent in Latin America," as violence is just one of the many interrelated strands Rosenberg covers, including the legacy of colonialism, American imperialism, racism, corruption, etc. The sad part is that though this book is two decades old, the same issues are making a comeback throughout the Americas. Recommended if you like the essays of the great Alma Guillermoprieto.
Dec 17, 2021Spanish
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Tina Rosenberg, the winner of a MacArthur grant, is a cowriter of the New York Times online column Fixes, which examines solutions to social problems. Her last book, The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She lives in New York City.
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- Latin America
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 980 — History & geography History of South America History of South America
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- HN110.5 .Z9 .V57 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems. By region or country
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