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...Frank Salomon The Guinea Pig: Healing, Food, and Ritual in the Andes . By Morales Edmundo . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1995 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxvii , 177 pp. Cloth , $40.00 . Paper , $19.95 . Copyright 1996...

...Peter Felten Playa Girón: Bay of Pigs: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas . By Castro Fidel and Fernández José Ramón . Edited by Clark Steve and Waters Mary-Alice . Foreword by Barnes Jack . New York : Pathfinder Press , 2001 . Photographs...

...James Nelson Goodsell The Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story . By Wyden Peter . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1979 . Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 352 . Cloth . $12.95 . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 It is almost twenty years since...

...: “I told you so!” Lazo assigns the major responsibility for the Cuban sore—or wound—to Americans who misjudged Castro or who failed to act decisively to overthrow him. His favorite targets are Herbert Matthews; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who arrogantly condemned the military for the Bay of Pigs...

...-instigated plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro began before the Bay of Pigs invasion, increased after the April 1961 debacle, continued after the missile crisis of October 1962, and ceased after the Kennedy assassination. Various attempts on the life of Fidel Castro were made in Havana while his troops were...

.... This underlies his brief initial chapter, which tells “A Story About Pigs (Notes for a Novel About Customs)” in an attempt to set his theme in Guatemala. Two young brothers allegedly steal pigs intended for a village fiesta in Jorge Ubico’s time (about 1940), thus inconveniencing the Señor Presidente, his local...

... an understanding of the events and the region, in striking contrast to the impression given in the author’s discussion of black pigs. These are “said to be” a cross between pigs introduced by the French and an “indigenous variety” introduced by the Spanish! “Arguably, they are said to have consumed excrement...

...Irving Rouse Prehistoria dominicana . By D’Onís Luis Padilla . [ Historia de Santo Domingo, Primera Parte .] ( Mexico : Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia , 1943 . Pp. 318 . Pigs. 33 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 ...

... received the encomienda of Comanja, northeast of Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, as a political favor. The letters, now in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, are full of Infante’s advice to Cáceres concerning tribute collections and the raising of pigs for sale in Mexico City and other markets...

...Miles Richardson “Panchimalco es un municipio triste . . .” (p. 191). The sadness of Panchimalco, the one room house with a dirt floor, the girl playing in a pig wallow, the small plot of poor land, is the theme of this book written in 1959 and republished, but unrevised, in 1974. The author...

... of the political crisis over untethered cows and unpenned pigs provides a fascinating explanation of the political dynamics of this changing community. ...

..., The Pig in the Barber Shop, Chile Con Carne , or Che! Wah! Wahl or, the Modern Montezumas in Mexico . This volume should be used in conjunction with bibliographies on non-U.S. foreign travelers in Mexico by those making an intensive search of all travel literature. Author Cole’s annotations...

... accounting of events from January 1, 1959, to April 17, 1961. The most compelling reading, however, comes later in the eyewitness accounts of persons arrested in Cuba as a result of the Bay of Pigs invasion April 17, 1961. Through these reports by refugees the full impact and horror of events elsewhere...

... of Pigs. She tells of being the only woman and one of the few Spanish-speaking foreign newspaper representatives to be invited by Castro’s Ministry of Communications to go to the combat zone. Proceeding to the battle front, the author witnessed some of the flotsam and jetsam of conflict: the dead...

... of Kansas. Following a brief introduction, the editor covers his subject in fourteen sections. He begins with one on prerevolutionary Cuba and another devoted to the Revolution. Then follow twelve sections dealing with subject divisions such as the Bay of Pigs invasion, the October 1962 crisis and its...

... Egypt in 1956 and China in 1958. In July 1960, he made his first threat concerning Soviet missile protection of Cuba, and Dinerstein argues that Krushchev believed this threat deterred the United States from active involvement during the Bay of Pigs operation. After this, he notes, some Soviet...

... interesting portions of the volume are those dealing with Guatemala’s participation in the Bay-of-Pigs episode and with the posture and activities of the Guatemalan delegation at the Santiago, San José, and Punta del Este Inter-American Conferences. The rest is illuminating and important but often rather dull...

..., the United States hypocritically forces a protectorate on the Cubans through the Teller [ sic ] Amendment. More recently, anticommunism is nothing but a mask for Wall Street and the CIA, and the Alliance for Progress is “an alliance for the preservation of the status quo” (p. 12). The Bay of Pigs figures...

... (which was part of the MRP) contain an interesting documentation of the activities of the counter-revolutionary movement during the pre-Bay of Pigs period. The author talked with numerous people in Cuba and the book contains a variety of episodes and conversations. The enthusiastic statements...

... somewhat resembles a social anthropologist’s study of village life. Thomsen focuses on the people of Río Verde, their attitudes, customs, and resistance to change. As a volunteer he attempted a variety of projects from raising chickens and pigs to forming a cooperative. In each instance he had to combat...