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Torrijos: The Man and The Myth (Spanish Edition),Used
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In the annals of Latin American politics, Omar Torrijos of Panama was a David against Goliath, a charismatic leader who challenged the landed oligarchy and redistributed land and wealth. He died tragically in a 1981 plane crash widely rumored to be the work of the CIA.This unique, intensely personal homage by two giant talentsthe great Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide and the Nobel Prizewinning Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquezshows Torrijos as the man behind the story. Neverbeforepublished photographs and neverbeforetold personal reminiscences offer up candles of memory and understanding and a correction to history. Torrijos friend describes a moody, lonely president drinking whiskey all night, and in predawn, summoning one of six different women he knew to keep away the demons. In their eyes, Torrijos is understood not as a dictator who silenced opposition, closed the media, ran up debt, and turned a blind eye to corruption, but as a flawed hero in the footsteps of Simon Bolivar: the first leader to advocate for the poor, yet an innovator in schools and jobs who lured foreign investment to create a regional financial center, and a historical giant whose greatest legacy to his people was the Canal Treaty, signed with President Jimmy Carter in 1977.This is a memoir about a man ahead of his time.Graciela Iturbide has received many honors, including a W. Eugene Smith Grant in 1987 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988, published numerous books, and has held major exhibitions around the world.One of the worlds greatest writers and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, a defining classic of twentiethcentury literature, Colombianborn Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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