Chimel, 251, 256
China, 137
Chinandega, 247
Christ of San Benito Abad, 161
Christophe, Henri, 123
the Church, 19, 28, 35, 67, 73, 156, 195, 243, 270
CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency
Ciénaga, 73, 74
Cienfuegos, Camilo, 167, 168
Citizen Kane (film), 120
Ciudad Jiménez, 37
Ciudad Juárez, 16, 38
Coahuila, 16
Cobra Island, 21
Cocaine traffickers, 252–53
Cochabamba, 142, 188
Cohen Plan, 108
Colby, William, 215
Colombia, 8, 14, 73–76, 132–35, 140, 155, 160–63, 192, 254
Columbus, Texas, 44
Communist Party (Costa Rica), 136
Communist Party (El Salvador), 85, 91, 104, 125
Condori, Gregorio, 224
Connally, John, 183
Cora Indians, 179
Córdoba, 45, 46
Córdova Cerna, Juan, 150
Cortázar, Julio, 276
Cortés Vargas, Carlos, 74, 75
Cosalá, 178–79
Costa Rica, 136–37, 268
Coyoacán, 113
Crosby, Bing, 159
Cruz, José de la (Crucito), 163–64
Cruz, María de la, 176
Cruz, Oswaldo, 9
Cuautla, 48
Cuba, 12, 22–23, 30, 61, 137–38, 147–49, 159–60, 163–65, 167–70, 171–72, 173–77, 179–81, 191
Cuban American Sugar Company, 30
Cuban Copper Company, 30
Cuernavaca, 41
Culiacán, 34, 72
Cuna Indians, 225
Cunha family, 29
Cuscatlán, 264
Cuzco, 224
Czechoslovakia, 152
Daiquirí, 30
Dajabón, 107
Dallas, 183
Dalton, Roque, 221
Dantas family, 29
Darío, Rubén, 44
D’Aubuisson, Roberto, 243
Daumont, Sylvain, 24
Díaz, Porfirio, 15, 16, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31, 38, 39
Díaz Ordaz, Gustavo, 200
Díaz Soto y Gama, Antonio, 39
Dilthey, Wilhelm, 238
Discépolo, Enrique Santos, 100
Dobb, Maurice, 238
Domingo Vidal, Saint, 162–63
Dominican Republic, 84–85, 105–8, 119, 152, 158–59, 172–73, 184, 189–91
Domitila (Bolivian rebel), 193–94, 244, 259–60
Dow Chemical Company, 222
Drew, Charles, 121
Duarte, Eva: see Perón, Evita
Dueñas, Arturo, 203–4
Duke, Doris, 169
Dulles, Allen, 151, 154, 174, 175, 176
Dulles, John Foster, 150, 151, 152
Duncan, Isadora, 42–43
Durango, 44, 57
Duvalier, François, 208
Echagüe, Ortiz, 83
Ecuador, 28–29, 53–54, 260, 276
Edison, Thomas Alva, 3–4
Edward, Prince of Wales, 81–82
Egg, Saint, 161–62
Einstein, Albert, 127, 145–46
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 45, 145, 149, 151, 154, 158, 171, 174
Eisenstein, Sergei, 90
El Chipote, 68, 69
El Impartial (newspaper), 136
El Maldito, 268
El Mercurio (newspaper), 213
El Paso, 41
El Salvador, 46, 85, 91–92, 93, 97–98, 103–4, 125, 154, 182–83, 206–7, 220–21, 243, 256–57, 263–64
El Uvero, 164
Enedina (prostitute), 78
England, 5, 89, 112, 152, 261, 270
Eniwetok, 145
Enríquez, Magdalena, 263–64
Escárate, Armando, 265
Escobar, Matías, 223–24
Escudero, Juan, 54–55
Escuinapa, 177
Espinal, Luis, 244
Estelí, 247, 275
Estoril, 197
Estrada Cabrera, Manuel, 6–7, 149
Exú (god of the poor), 115, 116
the Familiar, 128
Faulkner, William, 121
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 199
Feland, Logan, 71
Fernando, Don, 57
Ferrer, José, 146
Figueiredo, General, 272
Figueres, Jose, 136
Flores Magón, Ricardo, 52
Flores Magón brothers, 16, 52
Fonseca Amador, Carlos, 182, 235, 248
Ford, Henry, 80
Formosa, 137
Fortuny, Ruben, 228
France, 5, 7, 66, 112, 152, 270
Franco, Francisco, 103, 104, 105, 109
Franco, Pancho, 111
Freeport Sulphur Company, 164
Freire, Paulo, 238
Freyre, Gilberto, 217
Friedenreich, Artur, 50
Fuertes, Sebastián, 268
Fuller, Alvan Tufts, 66
Fundación, 73
Furlong detective agency, 16
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 173
Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer, 75, 132–33
García, Romeo Lucas, 255
García Lorca, Federico, 103
García Márquez, Gabriel, 75, 262–63
García Menocal, Mario, 30
García Meza, Luis, 252
García Vilas, Marianela, 243, 264
Gardel, Carlos, 101–2, 155–56
Garrido, Manuel, 73
Garrincha (soccer player), 166, 167
Gaudí, Antonio, 205
Gaynor, Janet, 78
Gayol, Ricardo, 156
General Electric, 4
Germany, 5, 102–3, 270
Getty Oil, 273
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 18–19
Gómez, Juan Vicente, 17, 98–99
Gónzalez, Carlos, 277–78
Gónzalez Zeledón, Sinforoso, 70
Gordon, Lincoln, 185–86
Goulart, João, 185–86, 213
Graceland, 242
Gracelli, Monseñor, 234
Granada, Nicaragua, 249
Grenada Island, 263
Guanabara Bay, 20
Guanape, 15
Guantanamo, 164
Guantánamo and Western Railroad, 30
Guaraní Indians, 13
Guatemala, 6–7, 104–5, 125, 149–54, 157, 218–20, 251–52, 255, 256, 273
Guatemala City, 6, 7, 104, 149, 153, 154, 157, 218, 255, 273
Guayaquil, 53
Guayas River, 53, 54
Guevara, Ernesto “Che,” 153, 159, 165, 166, 167, 168, 177, 191–92, 195, 196, 206
Guggenheim, Daniel, 25
Gulf Oil, 99, 187, 205–6, 252
Gutiérrez, Gustavo, 270
Gutiérrez, Ricardo, 180–81
Guzmán, Martín Luis, 34
Haiti, 107, 108, 123–25, 207–8
Halley’s Comet, 25
Ham, Clifford D., 71
Hammett, Dashiell, 146
Hanna, Mark, 8
Hanwell, 89
Hatfield, Captain, 68
Havana, 22–23, 61, 137, 159, 165, 168, 169, 170, 175, 176, 180, 181, 191, 275
Hayworth, Rita, 139
Hearst, William Randolph, 25, 120
Hellman, Lillian, 146
Hemingway, Ernest, 109–10
Hernández, José Gregorio, 241, 242
Hernandez Martínez, Maximiliano, 91, 103–4
Herrara y Reissig, Julio, 10
Higueras, 196
Hill, Joe, 37–38
Hill, Robert, 151
Hiroshima, 126
Hitler, Adolf, 102–3, 104, 109, 126
Hochschild, Mauricio, 123, 129, 130
Hollywood, 49, 86, 89, 90, 122, 131, 139, 146, 173
Hombrito Valley, 165
Honduras, 68, 152, 190, 206–7, 220, 268
Hopper, Hedda, 144
House Un-American Activities Committee, 145, 146
Houston, 198, 203
Hoyos Rubio, Rafael, 261
Huamanga, 225
Huautla, 33
Huayanay, 223
Huayanay Indians, 224
Huerta, Victoriano, 31, 32, 33, 34, 39
Huichol Indians, 277
Hull, Cordell, 107–8
Humbug, Wily, 177–78
Hurricane Flora, 179–80
Hutton, Barbara, 169
Hyppolite, Hector, 124
Ilopango, 11, 46, 85
Imbert, Toni, 184, 189, 190, 191
Inca Indians, 27
the Indians, 7, 8–9, 14, 20, 23, 26, 40, 55, 105, 111, 220, 222, 225, 226, 250, 255, 273; see also specific tribes