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Secuestro Express
Secuestro Express is a hard-hitting film by a young Venezuelan director, which has earned him accolades in the film world and a job in Hollywood working for Steven Spielberg. It deals with the growing trend throughout South America for quick kidnappings (often only lasting a couple of hours) to get... Read more»
Saddled With Darwin - Toby Green
Following in the steps of Darwin, Toby Green rides through Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. An interesting journey for the remoteness of many places and the fascinating characters met along the way. Read more»
Fitzcaraldo
This unusual film by Wim Wenders takes the viewer to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, to follow opera-loving hero Fitzcaraldo's ambition to build an opera house above the Pongo rapids near Iquitos. Read more»
Whisky
A beautifully portrayed and understated view of life in urban Uruguay, which has both poignant and comic moments. The monotony of daily life is broken when a brother comes to stay from Brazil and the main character asks one of the workers in his sock factory to move into his flat and pretend to be h... Read more»
Familia Rodante
A charming road movie following the chaotic 1,000 km journey made by a dysfunctional family in a battered old camper van, all the way from Buenos Aires up to Corrientes. Earthy and generous-hearted, the film evokes the character of the countryside they pass through, and the tensions between the fami... Read more»
Cochineal Red - Hugh Thompson
The long-awaited sequel to the White Rock, a fascinating book focusing on the pre-Incan civilisations of Peru dating back to the earliest pyramids of Caral built some 5,000 years ago. Very readable and enough to make you want to follow in Thompson's footsteps! Read more»
Bitter Fruit - The story of the American coup in Guatemala, Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer
The tragic account of US involvement (particularly of the CIA and the United Fruit Company) in the downfall of Guatemala's democratically elected government in the '50s. Clear, concise and often hard-hitting, it provides a sobering model for a number of brutal civil wars and dictatorships that raged... Read more»
Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden
A fascinating (and shocking) account of the hunt for Colombia's drug lord Pablo Escobar. Read more»
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