Bestsellers
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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No Stone Unturned
- By Tim on 06-25-13
By: David McCullough
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- By: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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How America Created its Own Border Problem
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: Jonathan Blitzer
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Bill Mumy
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Still Lost...
- By Mel on 01-12-17
By: Douglas Preston
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Enrique's Journey
- By: Sonia Nazario
- Narrated by: Catherine Byers
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In this true story, journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States....
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Missing Chapter 8 and Epilogue!
- By Bobby Reed on 07-01-14
By: Sonia Nazario
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Che Guevara
- A Revolutionary Life
- By: Jon Lee Anderson
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Encompassing and Fair Look at an Historical Man
- By Matt on 08-10-11
By: Jon Lee Anderson
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Central America's Forgotten History
- Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
- By: Aviva Chomsky
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Outline of a rigged game
- By Buretto on 02-07-22
By: Aviva Chomsky
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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No Stone Unturned
- By Tim on 06-25-13
By: David McCullough
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- By: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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How America Created its Own Border Problem
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-24
By: Jonathan Blitzer
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Bill Mumy
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Still Lost...
- By Mel on 01-12-17
By: Douglas Preston
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Enrique's Journey
- By: Sonia Nazario
- Narrated by: Catherine Byers
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In this true story, journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States....
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Missing Chapter 8 and Epilogue!
- By Bobby Reed on 07-01-14
By: Sonia Nazario
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Che Guevara
- A Revolutionary Life
- By: Jon Lee Anderson
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Encompassing and Fair Look at an Historical Man
- By Matt on 08-10-11
By: Jon Lee Anderson
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Central America's Forgotten History
- Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
- By: Aviva Chomsky
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Outline of a rigged game
- By Buretto on 02-07-22
By: Aviva Chomsky
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The Undocumented Americans
- By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrated by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Raw, heartbreaking - we can do better by others
- By RapaciousReader on 04-11-20
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Abridged
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Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women...
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The Path Between The Seas
- By Thomas M. Kokinda on 07-19-08
By: David McCullough
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Jungle of Stone
- The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
- By: William Carlsen
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Unsung Explorers at the Heart of History
- By thomas on 01-10-17
By: William Carlsen
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State of War
- MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
- By: William Wheeler
- Narrated by: William Wheeler
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Great insight!
- By jose flores on 05-19-23
By: William Wheeler
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Salvador
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....
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Didion writes like an orthopedic surgeon cuts
- By Darwin8u on 01-29-14
By: Joan Didion
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Mesoamerican Mythology
- A Captivating Guide to Maya Mythology, Aztec Mythology, Inca Mythology, and Central American Myths
- By: Matt Clayton
- Narrated by: Randy Whitlow
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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If you're looking for a captivating collection of Inca myths, then pay attention. This audiobook includes four captivating manuscripts....
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Horrible pronouncing of names
- By Time2C on 09-27-21
By: Matt Clayton
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What You Have Heard Is True
- A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
- By: Carolyn Forché
- Narrated by: Carolyn Forché
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others....
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Beautiful story
- By Norhilda on 05-09-19
By: Carolyn Forché
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Against All Hope
- The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares
- By: Armando Valladares
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a history of the Cuban Revolution as viewed from its dungeons. Armando Valladares describes his 22 years of torment and triumph in Castro's prison....
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The Face of Communism
- By stereotypo on 01-02-18
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Anna in the Tropics
- By: Nilo Cruz
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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This poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers....
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Amazing performances
- By Kristie on 12-17-08
By: Nilo Cruz
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The Boiling River
- TED Books
- By: Andrés Ruzo
- Narrated by: Andrés Ruzo
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exciting true adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon - where rivers boil and legends come to life....
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Fantastic story about the Peruvian Amazon.
- By S Massie on 02-22-16
By: Andrés Ruzo
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The Dispossessed
- A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
- By: John Washington
- Narrated by: Zac Aleman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family's search for safety shows how the United States-in concert with other Western nations-has gutted asylum protections for the world's most vulnerable.
By: John Washington
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Fidel Castro
- In His Own Words
- By: Alex Moore
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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From revolutionary to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world's most controversial leaders and perhaps its most enduring....
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I want to learn more about Castro without the Yankee commentary
- By Michael Mckenzie on 01-10-24
By: Alex Moore
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The Woman on the Windowsill
- A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
- By: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
- Narrated by: Kyla García
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. This is a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator....
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Conquistador Voices
- The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume I
- By: Kevin H. Siepel
- Narrated by: Kevin H Siepel
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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The Misleading Title is the Most Forgivable Part..
- By Tyler Sanders on 12-19-22
By: Kevin H. Siepel
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México Bizarro 2
- By: Julio Patán, Alejandro Rosas
- Narrated by: Julio Patán, Alejandro Rosas
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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México bizarro 2 es un viaje alucinante por distintas épocas y personajes de nuestro país. Julio Patán y Alejandro Rosas te cuentan qué hay detrás de la fortuna de un pepenador millonario, un portero secuestrador y un poeta caníbal....
By: Julio Patán, and others
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The History of Costa Rica
- A Fascinating Guide to This Beautiful Country in Central America
- By: Alex Hutchens
- Narrated by: Jeff Bower
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bursting with key insights and eye-opening facts about the rich history and amazing culture of Costa Rica, this profound book provides modern readers with a deep dive into a beautiful Latin American nation with an incredible story to tell....
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Summary
- By Spence on 06-04-23
By: Alex Hutchens
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
- By: Gerald Martin
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In his novels and short stories, Gabriel García Márquez has transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction....
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Great content, somewhat disappointing narrator.
- By Paola Herrington on 01-08-13
By: Gerald Martin
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The Maya Book of Creation: The Sacred Text of the Maya
- A New Translation of the Popol Vuh
- By: Joaquin De la Sierra
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Schmidt
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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A fascinating, accessible Mayan epic
- By Bruce on 04-13-24
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Teotihuacan
- An Enthralling Overview of the First Large City in Mesoamerica and Its Influence on Mesoamerican Civilizations Such as the Maya Civilization and Aztecs (Ancient Mexico Series)
- By: Billy Wellman
- Narrated by: Jay Herbert
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Travel back to a thousand years before the Aztecs, when volcanos obliterated cities, impelling the survivors to find a place of safety. These survivors built the largest city in the Americas and one of the world’s top seven megacities. They erected the highest pyramid in Mexico....
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Narrators style distracts
- By EDB on 05-08-24
By: Billy Wellman
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El país bajo mi piel [The Country Under My Skin]
- By: Gioconda Belli
- Narrated by: Magda Giner
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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He aquí el fascinante testimonio de una mujer fuera de lo común: nicaragüense, revolucionaria, poeta, madre de cuatro hijos y esposa de tres maridos....
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maravillosa
- By Norma Ruvalcaba on 10-13-23
By: Gioconda Belli
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Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume II
- By: Kevin H Siepel
- Narrated by: Kevin H Siepel
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors....
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A tale better than fiction
- By Peter C. Saxman on 07-25-23
By: Kevin H Siepel
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The Olmecs
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Many ancient civilizations are described as mysterious, but none provide as many puzzles and unanswered questions as the Olmecs. These people arrived in lands near the Gulf of Mexico around 1500 BCE and brought with them entirely new concepts in terms of engineering, agriculture....
By: Hourly History
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Ghosts of Panama
- A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
- By: Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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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.
By: Mark Harmon, and others
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Central American Mythology: Captivating Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures of Ancient Mexico and Central America
- By: Matt Clayton
- Narrated by: Randy Whitlow
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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If you're looking for a captivating collection of Central American myths, then pay attention. Mexico and the Central American states are home to many indigenous peoples, each of whom speaks their own language and lives according to their own customs....
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Why is a white mans voice teaching me about latin America?
- By Ryan on 11-25-21
By: Matt Clayton