Terror in Latin America: Five Countries, Five Great Translations

10 min readNov 29, 2022

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Photo of violence in Caracas from timesofisrael.com

Here are five brief reviews of translated novels about political terror in Latin America. There’s a lot of terror to go around, so we’ll look at stories from Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia. I’ll give a short review and provide a link to my more extensive review of each book. Got your plane ticket ready? (Some spoilers follow.)

Jim Fonseca

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