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Audible is pleased to present this collection of audiobooks specially selected by our editors. Audible's vision is to offer our customers the largest catalog of audiobooks, read in English or Spanish, with an authentic hispanic voice, including Audible Exclusives and Audible Originals that we have developed solely for the audiobook format.
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Bolivar
- American Liberator
- By: Marie Arana
- Narrated by: David Crommett
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
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It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic, straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain, forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races, lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and died relatively young, uncertain whether his achievements would endure.
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There will be blood.
- By Joselo on 08-02-13
An Untold Story
In all honesty, I don’t think I had ever even heard of Simon Bolivar before this audiobook, let alone all that he accomplished in his lifetime. Bolivar freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback in the process and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. “The Great Liberator of South America” is a story that should be better known. Give it a listen and impress all your history-buff friends with all you’ll learn..
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In the Country We Love
- My Family Divided
- By: Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford
- Narrated by: Diane Guerrero
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just 14 years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the US, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.
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Moves very slowly
- By Laura S. on 07-23-16
A Timely First Generation Story
Actress Diane Guerrero, known for her roles in Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was a just a teenager when her parents were deported to Colombia. Staying in the US, Guerrero was forced to build a life without them—a life that had turned out to be a successful one. At a time when the immigration system is being spoken about more than ever, In the Country We Love couldn’t be a more important story to listen to. Wherever you stand on the issues today, this is a story about family, and overcoming the toughest obstacles.
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Open Veins of Latin America
- Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- By: Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende - Foreward
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.
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- By fishrock on 02-20-10
A critical exploration of the colonization of Latin America
Originally written in 1971, Open Veins of Latin America is an exceptionally written, harrowing account of the investigation of five centuries of genocide, theft, and political meddling by European and American economic interests—all at the expense of the poor, rural, and indigenous peoples of Latin America. Author Eduardo Galeano spares no colonial power as he criticizes the imperial forces that have bled it dry of its riches for 500 years, while its people are among the poorest on earth with high levels of infant mortality, illiteracy and worse – child prostitution. This audiobook will is an absolute must-listen, not only for history buffs, but also for those curious who want context as to how Latin America got to is where it is today.