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Mauricio (“the Eye”) Silva

By Roberto Bolaño

While reporting on prostitution in India, a journalist saves two children who have fallen prey to a sect in which young boys are subjected to ritual castration.  

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In Latin America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, culture, exploitation, race and ethnicity, prostitution

Ysrael

By Junot Diaz

Two brothers set off on a mission to bully a disabled peer.  

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In Latin America, North America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, discrimination

Miss Forbes’s Summer of Happiness

By Gabriel García Márquez

Two boys plot to kill their excentric and authoritarian nanny during a summer on an Italian island.

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In Latin America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty

"I Only Came to Use the Phone"

By Gabriel García Márquez

Maria’s car stalls and she is picked up by a van of a mental institution. When she arrives at the institution, she is thought to be one of the inpatients and she finds it impossible to find her way out again.

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In Latin America Tags: insanity, respect for autonomy, public health, gender, relationships

The Lottery in Babylon

By Jorge Luis Borges

Borges describes a world in which all contingencies of life are being determined by a lottery.

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In Latin America Tags: social mobility, luck

Just Lather, That’s All

By Hernando Telléz

Torres, a ruthless commander, walks into the barbershop of a member of the resistance for a shave. The barber has the opportunity to kill Torres, but will he?

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In Latin America Tags: courage, regret, murder of tyrants, war

It’s Because We’re So Poor

By Juan Rulfo

If Tacha, the youngest daughter of a poor family, loses her calf in the flood, she is likely to follow her sisters into prostitution.

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In Latin America Tags: prostitution, poverty, respect for autonomy

Emma Zunz

By Jorge Luis Borges

Emma Zunz’s father was falsely accused of embezzlement. When she receives news of his death, she decides to exact a chilling revenge on the real culprit.

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In Latin America Tags: revenge, rape, truth, feminism

And of Clay we Are Created

By Isabel Allende

A reporter is covering a mud slide after a Volcano eruption in Colombia. He encounters a thirteen-year old girl who is stuck in the mud. While trying to rescue her, he confronts his own past and is left a changed person.

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In Latin America Tags: photojournalism, empathy, dignity

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  • Ambition 1
  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
  • race 3

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