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    • The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,460 ratings
    • 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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    • A True Story
    • By: Douglas Preston
    • Narrated by: Bill Mumy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,884 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • 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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    • Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
    • By: Aviva Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • 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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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • By: Jon Lee Anderson
    • Narrated by: Armando Durán
    • Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,083 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 612 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Sonia Nazario
    • Narrated by: Catherine Byers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 722 ratings
    • 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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    • A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness
    • By: Alfredo Corchado
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andres Pabon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • Noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country - as he races to save his own life....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 08-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • If you're looking for a captivating collection of Inca myths, then pay attention. This audiobook includes four captivating manuscripts....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Matthew Restall, Amara Solari
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations....

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    • How a Band of Heroes Defied a Dictator and Helped Free a Nation
    • By: Kurt Muse, John Gilstrap
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Six Minutes to Freedom is the remarkable tale of Kurt Muse's arrest and harrowing months of imprisonment; his eyewitness accounts of torture; and the plight of his family as they fled for their lives. It is also the heart-pounding account of the only American civilian ever rescued by the elite Delta Force....

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    • A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
    • By: Carolyn Forché
    • Narrated by: Carolyn Forché
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....

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    • The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega
    • By: John Dinges
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.

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    • By: Nilo Cruz
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • 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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    • How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras
    • By: Scott Martelle
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot - and illegal - forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over....

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    • MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
    • By: William Wheeler
    • Narrated by: William Wheeler
    • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • 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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