Fire Down Below

by RobertHarvey (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $4.24

  For travellers and everyone interested in understanding the world's most turbulent and fascinating region, Fire Down Below is an up-to-date, vividly reported, nation-by-nation guide to Central and South America. In the tradition of John Gunther's Inside Latin America , Robert Harvey's Fire Down Under reveals a volatile mixture of progress, poverty, dramatic history, and dangerous politics. Harvey, a former Latin American correspondent for The Economist , combines his expertise as a reporter and political observer with insights from history, analyses of cultural and economic trends, interviews, and descriptive travel detail to explain the character of each nation - and the real state of Latin America today. He examines the issues and personalities behind the stories currently making news - from the turmoil in Nicaragua to the effects of the debt crisis - and recreates the rich cultures, exotic cities, and remarkable landscapes of each nation. Robert Harvey is also the author of an eyewitness account of Portugal's 1974-5 revolution, Portugal: Birth of a Democracy and is the editor of a book on British politics Blueprint 2000 .