Silver, Sword and Stone review much blood shed, little improvement
almost 5 years in The guardian
Jefferson saw Latin America dominated by ‘priests and kings’. Marie Arana’s history is similarly dark – and that’s problematic
Writing in 1811, during the early rumblings of the Spanish American independence movements, Thomas Jefferson harboured little optimism about the “great field of political experiment [that] is opening in our neighbourhood”. He did not believe the people of South and Central America were capable of establishing successful republics.
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