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By ox cart to Popoyuapa

By ox cart to Popoyuapa

March 18, 2018

Dozens of highly decorated ox carts are slowly making their way south from Masaya and two other cities in the central part of Nicaragua’s Pacific coastal regions. They are heading for a small place called Popoyuapa, in Rivas, Nicaragua’s southern-most department, bordering the frontier with Costa Rica. Their route south is along the pan-American highway, […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Spanish conquest

An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar

An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar

July 9, 2016

Alan Rabinowitz begins his compelling story of the jaguar with two experiences of meeting one. The first was in the zoo, as a child. The second, more than two decades later, is set in Belize, a key part of the ‘Jaguar Corridor’ that Rabinowitz has fought to preserve through Mesoamerica and into the northern parts […]

Category: Latin America, Central America wildlife, Book reviews | Tags: Nicaragua, panama, Spanish conquest | 2 Responses

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Under the volcano

May 31, 2016

On my morning walk there is a point from which I can see the sulphurous fumes pouring from the Masaya volcano. On the lip of the crater, although not visible from my viewpoint seven kilometres away, is a large wooden cross. It occupies the pinnacle on which a similar cross was first placed in 1529 […]

Category: Latin America, Central America wildlife | Tags: volcanoes, Nicaragua, Masaya, Spanish conquest

The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami

The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami

December 31, 2015

This story takes an unusual premise, adds some excellent research, and results in a very readable and sympathetic novel which convincingly describes one of the mosy bizarre episodes in the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The long walk undertaken by the Spanish adventurer Cabeza de Vaca is already chronicled (and a contemporary description forms a […]

Category: Book reviews | Tags: Spanish conquest

1519: A Journey to the End of Time

1519: A Journey to the End of Time

December 31, 2015

So much has been written about the Spanish conquest of Latin America that it has become difficult to find new approaches to the topic. Hugh Thomas’s definitive history of the invasion of Mexico, now called simply Conquest, is 20 years old, but his monumental history of the Spanish monarchy is much more recent, and volume […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Mexico, Latin America, Spanish conquest

Empire's Crossroads: A history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day

Empire’s Crossroads: A history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day

December 30, 2014

There are many histories of the Americas that begin with Columbus’s landing in what were to become known as the West Indies, but this is perhaps one of the few accessible accounts which focus on the Caribbean itself, and which follow through right to the present day. Carrie Gibson’s thesis is that the Caribbean was […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Cuba, US intervention, Latin America, dictators, caribbean, Spanish conquest

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