América Central

Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes....

Here is the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans....

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....

In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers....

Anderson traces Che's life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign....

At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States....

If you're looking for a captivating collection of Inca myths, then pay attention. This audiobook includes four captivating manuscripts....

One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation....

The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....

Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women...

La mitología de la civilización azteca, que gobernó el centro de México en los años 1400 y principios de 1500, representaba una unión de grandeza y pavor. El mundo fue creado y destruido en el mito, y los dioses magníficos lucharon entre sí todos los dias....

Naval intelligence agents working the most dangerous beat in the world–the narco-state of Panama in the late 1980s–struggle to penetrate Noriega’s organization and protect their families on the eve of invasion.

The Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union lasted for more than 40 years. In general, this was a war of spies and subterfuge, of covert action and espionage. There was always a danger, however, that an error of judgment could suddenly cause the Cold War to turn red-hot....

Entre 1960 y 1996, Guatemala sufrió las consecuencias de una espantosa y larga guerra civil, la cual dejó un profundo impacto en este país americano....

The building of the Panama Canal was one of the greatest engineering feats in human history....

The real story behind El Salvador's MS-13 gang and how they have perpetuated three generations of conflict and led to scores of migrants seeking a new life in the United States....

A frank and free-flowing discussion with one of the Caribbean’s most recognizable political figures, Dame Mary Eugenia Charles of Dominica....

Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.

He aquí el fascinante testimonio de una mujer fuera de lo común: nicaragüense, revolucionaria, poeta, madre de cuatro hijos y esposa de tres maridos....

The Spanish Conquest: What really happened? If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this audiobook for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas....

The Aztec Empire dominated Mesoamerica for a relatively short time — less than 100 years — but it is remembered today more than other ancient cultures in the region which sustained for much longer....

The Aztecs of central Mexico had a rich philosophical tradition, recorded in Latin script by Spanish clergymen and passed down for centuries in the native Nahuatl language....

A Radical Faith is an intimate portrait of one woman's spiritual and political transformation, and her courageous devotion to justice....

The Popol Vuh is undoubtedly the most important Maya text that survived the systematic destruction of the Maya codices at the hands of the Spanish. This is the definitive edition of the Popol Vuh, a new translation that makes the text accessible and enjoyable to listen to....

Whichever belief system was in play for the major industrial nations of Central and South America, a constant bombardment of foreign influence pushed the people of states such as Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and others toward overthrow....