A portrayal of the troubled countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El
Salvador and Nicaragua, as the author travels through them by train
and bus. The author shows daily lives lived against a backdrop of
continued and seemingly endless political friction and conflicts,
in places that exhibit the contradictions inherent in an area of
which Porfirio Diaz said: "Poor Mexico! So far from God, so close
to the United States". It is an observation that serves as an
epigraph to the book, as a means of showing how fervent Catholicism
can live side by side with extreme violence, how people can show
alternating friendliness and suspicion towards strangers, and how
the attitudes with which Central America and the United States
regard one another can be a mixture of both fear and longing.
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