Gringo : A Coming-Of-Age in Latin America

from salweir

Long on anti-imperialist lecturing, the book descends into something of a harangue and a political manifesto, after a promising start. A twenty-something son of political radicals and grandson of similarly committed radicals, the young man travels Mexico and Central and South America over a numbe...

from salweir

Long on anti-imperialist lecturing, the book descends into something of a harangue and a political manifesto, after a promising start. A twenty-something son of political radicals and grandson of similarly committed radicals, the young man travels Mexico and Central and South America over a numbe...

from kerns222

This is your basic neo-colonial go-away-someplace-poor-and-grow-up story, but this guy has connections. One uncle was a lawyer for Castro, another a US judge, IF Stone is in there somewhere, and his parents are jailed for a botched leftist robbery, and his step parents were famous radicals. The t...