Byron Rogers

Boliver, by Marie Arana – review

  • Bolívar

    Marie Arana

    Weidenfeld, pp. 603

So here we go again into a heart of darkness:  the humbug and horror which is the history of Spanish South America ever since Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola. Now modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the island’s population had within a few decades of Columbus’ arrival, through genocide and disease, been reduced to barely 200.

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