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The Green Mountain: Costa Rica's Dying Cloud Forest
Costa Rica's stunning Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is a source of mystery and wonder, and also a casualty of our changing climate.
Francis Buchanan
Jun 27, 20206 min read
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Fury & Magic in San Cristobal de Las Casas
San Cristobal de Las Casas is a city of both magic and wonder, and fury and anger. A cramped urban grid, the city is bounded on all sides...
Francis Buchanan
Jan 29, 20204 min read
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Joan Didion's Fevered Republic
Joan Didion's Salvador is a harrowing account of the impact that continued warfare has on a country. Read on for all my thoughts.
Francis Buchanan
Jul 26, 20197 min read
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Big Books Small Country
Big Books Small Country is a series that focuses on the horrors of the El Salvadoran Civil War and the lasting impact on literary culture.
Francis Buchanan
Jul 26, 20193 min read
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Corbyn & Maduro: An Ideological Kinship
Away from the all-devouring monster of never-ending carnage & mayhem that is Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn has managed to find himself in another...
Francis Buchanan
May 11, 20195 min read
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Putting Chatwin on the Map In Patagonia
Endlessly pigeonholed as a travel memoir, Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia often resembles anything but that. Chatwin’s 1977 classic is, at...
Francis Buchanan
Feb 23, 20194 min read
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A Brief History of US Interventionism in Latin America
The eyes of the international community are currently trained upon the political stalemate in Venezuela. With the Trump administration...
Francis Buchanan
Feb 10, 20194 min read
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