Such a curious mixture of cruelty and compassion and of honor and dishonor. The setting and people are exotic, almost stereotypically so, and in fact, if I didn't know that this was a true story, I'd think this was a very standard 19th century Anglo-American piece of action/adventure fiction. The ...
A sweeping, chilling assertion that governments manipulate the prospects and economies of other countries in order to control their governments. It seems to me that there isn't a lot of dispute about this, as even a cursory look at a book like Bananas!: How The United Fruit Company Shaped the World ...