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Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times Bureau Chief in Nicaragua, is the author of Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua. He is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown. (September 2021)
Ortega in His Labyrinth
Nicaragua’s president has created an insular dynastic tyranny that eerily resembles the one against which he fought decades ago.
Déjà Vu: Somoza-Ortega
by Avil A. Ramírez
El Preso 198: Un Perfil de Daniel Ortega [Prisoner 198: A Portrait of Daniel Ortega]
by Fabián Medina Sánchez
September 23, 2021 issue
Glimmers of Hope in Guatemala
From Silence to Memory: Revelations of the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional
with a foreword by Carlos Aguirre and a preface by Kate Doyle
December 5, 2013 issue
Triumphant Turkey?
Politically Turkey has changed more in the last ten years than it did in the previous eighty.
Turkey and the Dilemma of EU Accession: When Religion Meets Politics
by Mirela Bogdani
The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey
by Banu Eligur
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007
by Carter Vaughn Findley
Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul
by Amy Mills
August 18, 2011 issue
Big Gamble in Rwanda
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Roméo Dallaire, with a foreword by Samantha Power
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide
by Gérard Prunier
Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda
by John Bale
Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France's Role in Rwandan Genocide
by Andrew Wallis
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner
March 29, 2007 issue
The Trouble with Costa Rica
The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics
edited by Steven Palmer and Iván Molina
Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland?
by Eva Paus
La Miel de los Mudos, y Otros Cuentos Ticos de Ciencia Ficción
by Iván Molina Jiménez
June 8, 2006 issue
Kurds in Turkey: The Big Change
The Kurds in Turkey: EU Accession and Human Rights
by Kerim Yildiz, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky
Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade
by John Tirman
The Turks Today
by Andrew Mango
Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas
by Nadire Mater, translated from the Turkish by Ayse Gul Altinay, with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe
January 12, 2006 issue
Clouds Over Iran
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran
by Christopher de Bellaigue
March 24, 2005 issue
Love in a Time of Revolution
The Country Under My Skin: A Memory of Love and War
by Gioconda Belli, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero with the author
November 21, 2002 issue
Guatemala: The Unfinished Peace
Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process
Susanne Jonas
Los Difíciles Senderos de la Paz en Guatemala
Gudrun Molkentin
Memoria Verdad y Esperanza: Version Popular del Informe Guatemala: Nunca Más
a report by the Archbishopric of Guatemala
El Guerrillero y el General: Rodrigo Asturias y Julio Balconi Sobre la Guerra y la Paz en Guatemala
Dirk Kruijt and Rudie Van Meurs
El Drama de la Pobreza en Guatemala: Sus Rasgos y Efectos Sobre la Sociedad
a report by the government of the Republic of Guatemala
June 21, 2001 issue
Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary
The Patient Impatience: from boyhood to guerrilla: a personal narrative of Nicaragua's struggle for liberation
by Tomás Borge
December 3, 1992 issue
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