Never the Hope Itself: Love and Ghosts in Latin America and Haiti

by Gerry Hadden

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A former NPR correspondent takes you into his own ghost-filled life as he reports on a region in turmoil. Gerry Hadden was training to become a Buddhist monk when opportunity came knocking: the offer of a dream job as NPR's correspondent for Latin America. Arriving in Mexico in 2000 during the nation's first democratic transition of power, he witnesses both hope and uncertainty. But after 9/11, he finds himself documenting overlooked yet extraordinary events in a forgotten political landscape. As he reports on Colombia's drug wars, Guatemala's deleterious emigration, and Haiti's bloody rebellion, Hadden must also make a home for himself in Mexico City, coming to terms with its ghosts and chasing down the love of his life, in a riveting narrative that reveals the human heart at the center of international affairs. -- Cover, p. [4].
  • ISBN10 0062100653
  • ISBN13 9780062100658
  • Publish Date 6 September 2011
  • Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint Collins
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 352
  • Language English