Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America

An honest judge in Medellin, a Maoist guerilla of Peru's Shining Path, the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina's Dirty War, the pool-party rich of El Salvador, the disabused revolutionaries of Nicaragua, and the ordinary Chileans who became silent partners in Pinochet's dictatorship--these people live in Latin America, but their stories illuminate the human face of violence all over the world.

Tina Rosenberg spent five years trying to understand their world and learning to live with these "children of Cain." Their stories are disturbing precisely because these people are not monsters; the faces in Children of Cain are not those of strangers.

Author: Tina Rosenberg
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 10/01/1992
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.22w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780140172546

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/03/1992

About the Author
Journalist Tina Rosenberg lived and traveled extensively in Latin America from 1985 to 1991. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic. She now lives in Washington, D.C.