Chesa Boudin

This is your basic neo-colonial go-away-someplace-poor-and-grow-up story, but this guy has connections. One uncle was a lawyer for Castro, another a US judge, IF Stone is in there somewhere, and his parents are jailed for a botched leftist robbery, and his step parents were famous radicals.
The text starts like a freshman paper but gets better, maybe that's what happens when you come of age, you write better. But he plays the gringo card (as he calls it) to get better treatment on the right, and plays the child-of-polical-prisoners card to get inside views.
Currently he writes lectures and translates and wikipedia says he is going to Yale law school. Probably will be a guy you hear of a lot of one day.
His trip is interesting. Especially if you didnt do your own coming of age trip. And dont pay attention to the cover. It looks like someone spent a lot of time lighting him just right for a technicolor movie of the 50's.… (altro)

Long on anti-imperialist lecturing, the book descends into something of a harangue and a political manifesto, after a promising start. A twenty-something son of political radicals and grandson of similarly committed radicals, the young man travels Mexico and Central and South America over a number of years, searching for an alternative narrative to the one at home. A wearisome read, other than for the ideologically fervent, its hectoring of the bad guys and the cheering for the anti-imperialist good guys will appeal only to fellow travellers.… (altro)