The Amazon Has Lost All Subjectivity

The Amazon is full of poets with a bird’s-eye sense of reality.

A Novel the CIA Spent a Fortune to Suppress

Mr. President shows widespread corruption around a fictional Guatemalan dictator. This did not please the country’s real dictators.

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Honduran Hydra

The fight against open-pit mining in Honduras.

No, dictatorships are not more "efficient": See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries

Mussolini didn't make the "trains run on time," and Hitler's economy was a disaster. Some lessons must be relearned

Democracies don’t bounce back post-dictatorship. "Argentina, 1985" shows how justice looks afterward

Santiago Mitre's Oscar-nominated legal thriller that details complex process of the military junta going on trial