Over recent years James Dunkerley has established a reputation as
one of the most thoughtful and eloquent writers on Latin America.
In his latest book he investigates the high incidence of political
suicide in the subcontinent. A sensitive and revealing essay
details a number of case studies: the still disputed death of
Chilean President Salvador Allende during Pinochet's storming of
the Moneda Palace in 1973; the case of the Salvadorean guerrilla
leader Salvador Cayetano Carpio who shot himself in the heart in
April 1983; the death of Brazilian President Getulio Vargas, who
declared in April 1954 that he would only leave the presidential
palace dead - and a few days later did so; Bolivian President
German Busch, who died at his own hand aged thirty-five in 1939;
and the dramatic end of Eduardo Chibas, founder of the Cuban
People's Party, who shot himself live on Havana radio in 1951. in
the pieces which follow, Dunkerley employs his customary acuity to
range over the implications of the Sandinista defeat in Nicaragua,
the plight of El Salvador, the modern history of Bolivia, the
experience of postwar Guatemala and, in a coruscating broadside,
the politics of the Peruvian novelist and the presidential
candidate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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