Richard Feinberg

3 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | Richard Feinberg |John Dinges

Dinges has written widely on Washington’s complicity in the murderous activities of South American military juntas in the 1970s. In Chile, immediately following the ruthless 1973 coup, the military executed two young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi. The 1982 film Missing, directed by Costa-Gavras, brought global attention to the case and implied U.S. involvement in Horman’s demise.

3 weeks ago | foreignaffairs.com | Richard Feinberg |Greg Grandin

Grandin makes a compelling case for the intricate connections tying the United States to its southern neighbors. In bright, fluid prose, the historian argues that Latin American political thought and diplomatic ideals have mightily influenced the more powerful northern country.

2 months ago | foreignaffairs.com | Rowan Jacobsen |Richard Feinberg

As with wine and coffee, chocolate—once a homogeneous commodity—has become a highly differentiated delicacy. The chocolate cognoscenti now taste delicate aromas and obscure flavors and compete to identify the terroir, or natural environment, where a particular batch of cocoa beans originated. Jacobsen, a science journalist and travel writer, profiles modern-day Indiana Joneses who trek deep into the rainforests of Mesoamerica and the Upper Amazon in search of shade-grown wild cacao trees.

Aug 20, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Alan Norton |Alan Taylor |Richard Feinberg |Marie Arana

In This Review In This Review American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873In his spirited narrative, Taylor shows how the destinies of the three North American powers—Canada, Mexico, and the United States—became forever intertwined. In the nineteenth century, the doctrines of aristocratic hierarchy, republican liberalism, and indigenous communalism battled for hegemony throughout North America.

Aug 20, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Marie Simon |Marie Arana |Richard Feinberg |Alan Taylor

In This Review In This Review LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood MinorityLatinoLand is a sweeping, celebratory history of the diverse Latino contributions to American life. Arana begins with a terrifyingly bleak assessment of the genocidal racism of the early Spanish conquistadors and the biased colorism that continues to plague the Western Hemisphere.