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Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
3.0

Vargas Llosa up to his usual tricks of melding fiction with fact, but after the depth of his The Feast of the Goat, this one seems a little bit of same-same with the only revelations being the complicity of the United Fruit Company and the US government in bringing down elected governments, and establishing Banana Republics.

Less harrowing than the aforementioned Feast, but once you've read that, the other pales.