The Convulsions of War
The impact of the 1980-1992 war in El Salvador is as profound as the Civil War’s impact on the United States…
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Author: Jack Spence
Searching For Burt Reynolds
While traveling from Michigan to Boston in July 2010, my family stopped for the night in Batavia, NY, and discovered a baseball game was about to begin. My 16-year-old daughter Darcy and I…
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“Baseball in our Blood”
In its Cold War zeal, the Reagan administration relentlessly sought to portray the Sandinista revolution as a projection of Soviet-Cuban power in “our backyard.” It once used intelligence…
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Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua
Stephen Kinzer, New York Times Bureau Chief in Nicaragua for most of the war years, pauses in his compelling account of the war and its politics to explain the Socratic method needed to give…
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Researching Latin America
The instant outpouring of Web information on the Pinochet case got me to thinking about communications on my first trip to Chile during the Allende presidency. I was armed for Ph.D…
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