Braiding sweetgrass author6/1/2023 ![]() He was among hundreds of criminals Cuba expelled to the US in 1980. Carlos Buergos is a Cuban who fought in the civil war in Angola and now lives in a quiet community outside New Orleans. ![]() And now, just as then, a miner's survival depends on a vast global market whose fluctuations are controlled in faraway places. Illiteracy, malnutrition, and disease reign as they did five hundred years ago. Like her late husband, she works the gold mines much as the Indians were forced to do at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation on earth. ![]() ![]() "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). ![]()
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