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Letters from Latin America: 30 August 2023
LEO BOIX reviews fiction by Argentinian Martin Kohan and Costa Rican Carlos Fonseca, and poetry by Argentinian Alejandra Pizarnik
FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction
LEO BOIX reviews two powerful Latin American novels in which myth and crime fiction expose the deadly consequences of patriarchy, clandestine abortion and state violence
New releases from Laura Veirs, The Waterboys, and Yard Act
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
“AS MANY people as is necessary will die in Argentina so that the country will again be secure.”
These are the words of dictator Jorge Rafael Videla to the region’s army commanders in 1975.
He was, with Chilean Augusto Pinochet, Guatemalan Efrain Rios Montt and Paraguayan Alfredo Stroessner, among the most murderous tyrants who, in the 1970s, seized power in Latin America and authorised the forced “disappearance” of thousands of people.
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