Harsh Times av Mario Vargas Llosa

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<p><b>The true story of Guatemala¿s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it</b><br><br>Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo ¿rbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that ¿rbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. <i>Harsh Times</i> is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today.<br><br>In this thrilling novel, Mario Vargas Llosa fuses reality with two fictions: that of the narrator, who freely re-creates characters and situations, and the one designed by those who would control the politics and the economy of a continent by manipulating its history.<br><br><i>Harsh Times</i> is a gripping, revealing novel that directly confronts r