Never the hope itself
Subtitle: love and ghosts in Latin America and Haiti
By: Gerry Hadden
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780062020079
Subjects: Reporters and reporting; Description and travel; Foreign correspondents; Social conditions; Biography; Journalists
Description: A former NPR correspondent takes you into his own ghost-filled life as he reports on a region in turmoil. Gerry Hadden was training to become a Buddhist monk when opportunity came knocking: the offer of a dream job as NPR's correspondent for Latin America. Arriving in Mexico in 2000 during the nation's first democratic transition of power, he witnesses both hope and uncertainty. But after 9/11, he finds himself documenting overlooked yet extraordinary events in a forgotten political landscape. As he reports on Colombia's drug wars, Guatemala's deleterious emigration, and Haiti's bloody rebellion, Hadden must also make a home for himself in Mexico City, coming to terms with its ghosts and chasing down the love of his life, in a riveting narrative that reveals the human heart at the center of international affairs. -- Cover, p. [4].