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The Official Bridge Builders
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For Travel:
Unparalled in the world of travel books are the Lonely Planet guides.
the travel hardened Bridge Builder's staff consults them for detailed
travel information on over 10 countries on 4 continents. Highly recommended.
Dominican Republic:
Why
the Cocks Fight: by Michael Wucker
A
Continent of Islands: Mark Kurlansky
Dominican
Republic : Beyond the Lighthouse: by James Ferguson, 1992. Latin American
Bureau
Drown:
by Junot Diaz, 1996. Riverhead Books
Hippocrene
Insider's Guide to Dominican Republic: by Jack Tucker and Ursula Eberhard,
1993. Hippocrene Books.
In
the Time of Butterflies: by Julia Alvarez
Something
to Declare: by Julia Alvarez
Feast
of the Goat: by Mario Vargas Llosa
Nicaragua:
Nicaragua:
A guide to the People, Politics and Culture: By Hazel Plunkett, 1999,
Interlink Books (This was a great guide to understanding Nicaragua, and
it was quick and easy to read - number one recommendation)
Faith
in Struggle: The Protestant Churches in Nicaragua and their Response
to the Revolution: 1987, D. Haslam.
Triumph
of the People: G. Black, 1981.
A
Twilight Struggle: by Robert Kagan
Peru
Death
in the Andes: by Mario Vargas Llosa
The
Other Path: by Hernando De Soto
Guatemala
I,
Rigoberta Menchu: edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray
Crossing
Borders: by Rigoberta Menchu
Shattered
Hope: by Piero Gleijeses
Bitter
Fruit: by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer
Gift
of the Devil: by Jim Handy
Rites:
by Victor Perera
Silence
on the Mountain: by daniel Wilkinson
Guatemala:
Never Again: by RHEMI
Latin American Politics and History
Dependency
and Development in Latin America: by Fernando Cardaso and Enzo Faletto
Talons
of the Eagle: by Peter H. Smith
Open
Veins of Latin America: by Eduardo H. Galeano
Democracy
in Latin America: edited by Roderic Ai Camp
Latin
American Politics and Development: edited by Howard J. Wiarda &
Harvey F. Kline
U.S.-Latin
American Relations: by Michael J. Kryzanek
Americas:
by Peter Winn
Development/Poverty
Road
to Hell: by Michael Maren
Lords
of Poverty: by Graham Hancock
Where
Women Stand: by Naomi Neft & Ann D. Levine
Small
is Beautiful: by E. F. Schumacher
The
Human Rights Reader: edited by Micheline R. Ishay
Ending
Poverty: by Jeffrey Sachs
The
White Man's Burden: by William Easterly
The Short List os Latin American Authors
and Poets:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Ruben Dario (Nicaragua)
Ernest Cardenal (nicaragua)
Isabel Allende (Chile)
Paulo Coelho (Brazil)
Octavio Paz (Mexico)
Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)
As well, we have several movie recommendations.
Movies
The
Mission-
An absolutely heart-wrenching film about a Jesuit priest (Jeremy
Irons) fighting for the rights of the indigenous
Guarani in the jungles of colonial Brazil. Highlights tension between
violent and non-violent struggle and inhumanity of history - intertwined
glimpses of beauty and death, destruction and loss. Highly, highly recommended.
El Norte - An excellent movie
about a Guatemalan brother and sister who aim to illegally get to the
United States.
Romero - An emotional story
about the martyred Oscar Romero, a Salvadorean Bishop who gave his life
for the rights of the dispossessed majority. Though specific to El Salvador,
the movements of the Church and the politics involved are a near universal
theme throughout Latin America. A revealing film.
Salvador - An Oliver Stone film that brings the viewer into the
heart of El Salvador's brutal Civil War through the life of a North American
journalist. It's a journey of discovery that refuses to gloss over the
horrific, violent situation that plagued this small nation, and the North
American politics that made it possible. Highly recommended.
Men With Guns - The story of a wealthy doctor's discovery of
his own country as he leaves a life of urban privilege for a journey into
the realities of rural oppression, marginalization and armed struggle.
A must see.
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