Kill The Gringo
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Author |
: Jack Hood Vaughn |
Publisher |
: Rare Bird Books, a Vireo Book |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1945572175 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781945572173 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kill the Gringo by : Jack Hood Vaughn
"American diplomat, director of the Peace Corps, US ambassador to Colombia and Panama, and conservationist"--Cover.
Author |
: Eric Volz |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2010-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429925358 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429925353 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gringo Nightmare by : Eric Volz
In the spirit of Midnight Express and Not Without My Daughter comes the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didn't commit. Eric Volz was in his late twenties in 2005 when he moved from California to Nicaragua. He and a friend cofounded a bilingual magazine, El Puente, and it proved more successful than they ever expected. Then Volz met Doris Jiménez, an incomparable beauty from a small Nicaraguan beach town, and they began a passionate and meaningful relationship. Though the relationship ended amicably less than a year later and Volz moved his business to the capital city of Managua, a close bond between the two endured. Nothing prepared him for the phone call he received on November 21, 2006, when he learned that Doris had been found dead---murdered---in her seaside clothing boutique. He rushed from Managua to be with her friends and family, and before he knew it, he found himself accused of her murder, arrested, and imprisoned. Decried in the press and vilified by his onetime friends, Volz suffered horrific conditions, illness, deadly inmates, an angry lynch mob, sadistic guards, and the merciless treatment of government officials. It was only through his dogged persistence, the tireless support of his friends and family, and the assistance of a former intelligence operative that Eric was released, in December 2007, after more than a year in prison. A story that made national and international headlines, this is the first and only book to tell Eric's absorbing, moving account in his own words. Visit the companion Exhibit Hall at the Gringo Nightmare website for additional photos, audio clips, video, case files, and more.
Author |
: Carlos Fuentes |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2013-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466840140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466840145 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Old Gringo by : Carlos Fuentes
In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction. One of Fuentes's greatest works, the novel tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers, particularly his encounter with General Tomas Arroyo. In the end, the incompatibility of the two countries (or, paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both men, in a novel that is, most of all, about the tragic history of two cultures in conflict.
Author |
: Mark Mann |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2014-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783722068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783722061 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gringo Trail by : Mark Mann
Mark Mann and his girlfriend Melissa set off to explore the ancient monuments, mountains and rainforests of South America. But for their friend Mark, South America meant only one thing: drugs. Sad, funny and shocking, The Gringo Trail is a darkly comic road-trip and a revealing journey through South America’s turbulent history.
Author |
: David Montejano |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2010-06-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780292778641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292778643 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quixote's Soldiers by : David Montejano
“Detail[s] the grassroots interplay among the variety of ideologies, individuals, and organizations that made up the Chicano movement in San Antonio, Texas.” –Journal of American History In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transformed the barrios and ultimately brought down the old Anglo oligarchy. In Quixote’s Soldiers, David Montejano uses a wealth of previously untapped sources, including the congressional papers of Henry B. Gonzalez, to present an intriguing and highly readable account of this turbulent period. Montejano divides the narrative into three parts. In the first part, he recounts how college student activists and politicized social workers mobilized barrio youth and mounted an aggressive challenge to both Anglo and Mexican American political elites. In the second part, Montejano looks at the dynamic evolution of the Chicano movement and the emergence of clear gender and class distinctions as women and ex-gang youth struggled to gain recognition as serious political actors. In the final part, Montejano analyzes the failures and successes of movement politics. He describes the work of second-generation movement organizations that made possible a new and more representative political order, symbolized by the election of Mayor Henry Cisneros in 1981. “A most welcome addition to the growing literature on the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s.” –Pacific Historical Review
Author |
: Jon Marañon |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2018-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781543445121 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1543445128 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gringo’s Hawk by : Jon Marañon
This American author has now spent four decades being involved in Costa Rica’s terrestrial and marine habitats, documenting the challenges and triumphs of his attempts to make an environmentally conscious and sustainable living in this paradise. Jon Marañón offers a unique first-person account of nature and persons in conflict and the difficulties of meshing human existence into the recently pristine coastal rainforests of Costa Rica. His work promotes reader awareness of the natural environment, wildlife, ecosystems, and socioculture of this remote area of Costa Rica. Ecology and spirituality intertwine as he describes his journey in a mix of naturalist and lyrical prose that, along with humor and introspection, mark the style of The Gringo’s Hawk. The Gringo’s Hawk represents the culmination of Mr. Marañón’s social struggles and the roles he has played in conservation, education, social well-being, and in establishing national parks and marine reserves in his area.
Author |
: Chesa Boudin |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2009-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416559849 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416559841 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gringo by : Chesa Boudin
"In Gringo, Chesa Boudin takes us on a delightfully engaging trip through Latin America, in an ingenious combination of memoir and commentary" (Howard Zinn). Gringo charts two journeys, both of which began a decade ago. The first is the sweeping transformation of Latin American politics that started with Hugo Chávez's inauguration as president of Venezuela in 1999. In that same year, an eighteen-year-old Chesa Boudin leaves his middle-class Chicago life -- which is punctuated by prison visits to his parents, who were incarcerated when he was fourteen months old for their role in a politically motivated bank truck robbery -- and arrives in Guatemala. He finds a world where disparities of wealth are even more pronounced and where social change is not confined to classroom or dinner-table conversations, but instead takes place in the streets. While a new generation of progress-ive Latin American leaders rises to power, Boudin crisscrosses twenty-seven countries throughout the Americas. He witnesses the economic crisis in Buenos Aires; works inside Chávez's Miraflores palace in Caracas; watches protestors battling police on September 11, 2001, in Santiago; descends into ancient silver mines in Potosí; and travels steerage on a riverboat along the length of the Amazon. He rarely takes a plane when a fifteen-hour bus ride in the company of unfettered chickens is available. Including incisive analysis, brilliant reportage, and deep humanity, Boudin's account of this historic period is revelatory. It weaves together the voices of Latin Americans, some rich, most poor, and the endeavors of a young traveler to understand the world around him while coming to terms with his own complicated past. The result is a marvelous mixture of coming-of-age memoir and travelogue.
Author |
: Brian D. Behnken |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807834787 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807834785 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fighting Their Own Battles by : Brian D. Behnken
Between 1940 and 1975, African Americans and Mexican Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights
Author |
: William MacLeod Raine |
Publisher |
: DigiCat |
Total Pages |
: 4767 |
Release |
: 2022-11-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:8596547398608 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Collected Works by : William MacLeod Raine
DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited western collection: Novels: A Daughter of Raasay Wyoming Ridgway of Montana A Texas Ranger Bucky O'Connor Mavericks Brand Blotters Crooked Trails and Straight The Vision Splendid The Pirate of Panama A Daughter of the Dons The Highgrader Steve Yeager Yukon Trail The Sheriff's Son A Man Four-Square The Big-Town Round-Up Oh, You Tex! Gunsight Pass Tangled Trails Man Size The Fighting Edge Troubled Waters Colorado Texas Man
Author |
: Armando Navarro |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2014-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780292743205 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292743203 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mexican American Youth Organization by : Armando Navarro
Among the protest movements of the 1960s, the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) emerged as one of the principal Chicano organizations seeking social change. By the time MAYO evolved into the Raza Unida Party (RUP) in 1972, its influence had spread far beyond its Crystal City, Texas, origins. Its members precipitated some thirty-nine school walkouts, demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and confronted church and governmental bodies on numerous occasions. Armando Navarro here offers the first comprehensive assessment of MAYO's history, politics, leadership, ideology, strategies and tactics, and activist program. Interviews with many MAYO and RUP organizers and members, as well as first-hand knowledge drawn from his own participation in meetings, presentations, and rallies, enrich the text. This wealth of material yields the first reliable history of this extremely vocal and visible catalyst of the Chicano Movement. The book will add significantly to our understanding of Sixties protest movements and the social and political conditions that gave them birth.