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Bestsellers
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Central America's Forgotten History
- Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
- Written by: Aviva Chomsky
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States....
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- Written by: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Here is the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans....
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4 out of 5 stars
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GOOD HISTORY
- By Stephen on 2023-12-11
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- Written by: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 1
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An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer.
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The Undocumented Americans
- Written by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrated by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation....
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The History of Costa Rica
- A Fascinating Guide to This Beautiful Country in Central America
- Written by: Alex Hutchens
- Narrated by: Jeff Bower
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bursting with key insights and eye-opening facts about the rich history and amazing culture of Costa Rica, this profound book provides modern readers with a deep dive into a beautiful Latin American nation with an incredible story to tell....
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- Written by: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Bill Mumy
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 112
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....
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4 out of 5 stars
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great story w some questions re: politics
- By hasen on 2019-11-10
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Central America's Forgotten History
- Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
- Written by: Aviva Chomsky
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States....
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- Written by: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Here is the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans....
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4 out of 5 stars
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GOOD HISTORY
- By Stephen on 2023-12-11
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- Written by: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 1
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An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer.
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The Undocumented Americans
- Written by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrated by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation....
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The History of Costa Rica
- A Fascinating Guide to This Beautiful Country in Central America
- Written by: Alex Hutchens
- Narrated by: Jeff Bower
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bursting with key insights and eye-opening facts about the rich history and amazing culture of Costa Rica, this profound book provides modern readers with a deep dive into a beautiful Latin American nation with an incredible story to tell....
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- Written by: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Bill Mumy
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 112
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....
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4 out of 5 stars
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great story w some questions re: politics
- By hasen on 2019-11-10
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Six Minutes to Freedom
- How a Band of Heroes Defied a Dictator and Helped Free a Nation
- Written by: Kurt Muse, John Gilstrap
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Six Minutes to Freedom is the remarkable tale of Kurt Muse's arrest and harrowing months of imprisonment; his eyewitness accounts of torture; and the plight of his family as they fled for their lives. It is also the heart-pounding account of the only American civilian ever rescued by the elite Delta Force....
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Conquistador Voices
- The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume I
- Written by: Kevin H. Siepel
- Narrated by: Kevin H Siepel
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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The Spanish Conquest: What really happened? If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this audiobook for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas....
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Ghosts of Panama
- A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
- Written by: Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll
- Narrated by: Mark Harmon
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a rigger of elections.
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The Sandinistas
- The Controversial History and Legacy of the Socialist Party’s Revolution, Civil War, and Politics in Nicaragua
- Written by: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Whichever belief system was in play for the major industrial nations of Central and South America, a constant bombardment of foreign influence pushed the people of states such as Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and others toward overthrow....
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Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume II
- Written by: Kevin H Siepel
- Narrated by: Kevin H Siepel
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors....
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Secrets of Mesoamerica
- What Did the Aztec, Maya, and Olmec Really Know?
- Written by: Alda Dagny
- Narrated by: Heather Livesey
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Introducing Secrets of Mesoamerica, a must-listen for anyone who wants to know everything there is to learn about the rich history of this significant era of our history....
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What You Have Heard Is True
- A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
- Written by: Carolyn Forché
- Narrated by: Carolyn Forché
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Scary in a good way
- By William Metcalfe on 2024-07-05
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The Maya Book of Creation: The Sacred Text of the Maya
- A New Translation of the Popol Vuh
- Written by: Joaquin De la Sierra
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Schmidt
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Popol Vuh is undoubtedly the most important Maya text that survived the systematic destruction of the Maya codices at the hands of the Spanish. This is the definitive edition of the Popol Vuh, a new translation that makes the text accessible and enjoyable to listen to....
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The Canal Builders
- Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
- Written by: Julie Greene
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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The Canal Builders recounts how the Panama Canal emerged as a positive symbol of American power and became a critical early step towards 20th-century globalization....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Racism and discrimination built the Canal
- By Yogini Janina on 2024-08-24
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Jungle of Stone
- The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
- Written by: William Carlsen
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story3 out of 5 stars 5
In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Jungle of stone
- By Anonymous User on 2022-10-12
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Discourses of the Elders
- The Aztec Huehuetlatolli: A First English Translation
- Written by: Sebastian Purcell - translator
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Aztecs of central Mexico had a rich philosophical tradition, recorded in Latin script by Spanish clergymen and passed down for centuries in the native Nahuatl language....
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A Beauty That Hurts
- Life and Death in Guatemala
- Written by: W. George Lovell
- Narrated by: W. George Lovell
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Confronting the glaring inequities that continue to haunt Guatemala, Lovell grapples with the terror inflicted on the country’s Maya peoples by a military-dominated state during three decades of civil war....
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The Olmecs
- A History from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Many ancient civilizations are described as mysterious, but none provide as many puzzles and unanswered questions as the Olmecs. These people arrived in lands near the Gulf of Mexico around 1500 BCE and brought with them entirely new concepts in terms of engineering, agriculture....
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- Written by: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Abridged
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Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women...
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State of War
- MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
- Written by: William Wheeler
- Narrated by: William Wheeler
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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The real story behind El Salvador's MS-13 gang and how they have perpetuated three generations of conflict and led to scores of migrants seeking a new life in the United States....
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Panama Fever
- Written by: Matthew Parker
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, William Dufris
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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The building of the Panama Canal was one of the greatest engineering feats in human history....
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The Darkest Jungle
- The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-fated Race to Connect the Seas
- Written by: Todd Balf
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America's first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darien....
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Salvador
- Written by: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....
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5 out of 5 stars
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La situación
- By Anonymous User on 2019-08-08
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The Maya
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Matthew Restall, Amara Solari
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations....
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Jungleland
- A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure
- Written by: Christopher S. Stewart
- Narrated by: Jef Brick
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep....
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Midnight in Mexico
- A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness
- Written by: Alfredo Corchado
- Narrated by: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12
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Noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country - as he races to save his own life....
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Our Man in Panama
- The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega
- Written by: John Dinges
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.
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The Art of Political Murder
- Who Killed the Bishop?
- Written by: Francisco Goldman
- Narrated by: Ken Kilban
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation....
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El país bajo mi piel [The Country Under My Skin]
- Written by: Gioconda Belli
- Narrated by: Magda Giner
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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He aquí el fascinante testimonio de una mujer fuera de lo común: nicaragüense, revolucionaria, poeta, madre de cuatro hijos y esposa de tres maridos....