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Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, who fled Colombia after learning that the government planned to arrest him, returns to his hometown, Aracataca, in 2007 for the first time in 20 years. Alejandra Vega/AFP via Getty Images

Latin American literature contains warnings for American universities that yield to Trump

Writers have mined the region’s turbulent political history to explore how authoritarian rulers bend institutional leaders to their will.
Members from a local church mourn near a site where miners were killed during clashes at the Marikana mine in 2012. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

How ‘Marikana: the Musical’ has contributed to cultural amnesia

It is five years since the Marikana massacre in South Africa - a related musical unfortunately contributes to the amnesia about the traumatic incident.

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