Pataca family, 29
Patagonia, 53, 56
Patiño, Simón, 18, 81, 123, 129–30, 197–98
Patiño family, 197
Patiño Mines, 123, 130
Patiocemento, 192
Patoruzú (comic-strip character), 102
Patton, George, 45
Paz Estenssoro, Víctor, 141, 187
Pearl Harbor, 120
Peking, 137
Pelé (soccer player), 166
Pelée volcano, 7
Peñaranda, Enrique, 123
Pensington, Lieutenant, 92–93
Pereira, Virgulino da Silva: see Lampião
Pereira family, 29–30
Pérez, Didaskó, 231
Perez, Milay, 231
Pérez Millán Temperley, Jorge Ernesto, 56
Pemambuco, 29
Perón, Evita, 100–101, 127–28, 143–44, 157
Perón, Juan Domingo, 82, 127–28, 144, 156, 157, 228
Pershing, John, 44–45
Persons, Ell, 50
Peru, 12, 27, 55, 202, 223–25, 260–61
Pessoa, Epitácio, 50
Peters, Dewitt, 124
Peurifoy, John, 151, 152, 154
Philip II, king of Spain, 7
Picasso, Pablo, 135–36, 237
Pinochet, Augusto, 215, 226, 251, 277
Pinochet, Señora, 215
Pino del Agua, 163
Pixinguinha (musician), 51
Platt, Thomas, 30
Platt Amendment, 30
Playa Girón, 174
Plaza, Monseñor, 233
Plaza de Mayo grandmothers, 265–66, 267
Plaza de Mayo mothers, 239, 246, 261, 267
Poland, 135
Ponce, Federico, 150
Port-au-Prince, 124, 207
Portugal, 197
Posada, José Guadalupe, 24–25
Potosí, 187
Potosí Indians, 188
Pound, Ezra, 65
Presley, Elvis, 242
Prestes, Luis Carlos, 63, 102
Princeton, N.J., 127
Puerto Cabezas, 62
Puerto Rico, 188, 199–200
Puno, 55
Punta del Este, 177
Punta Santa Elena, 276
Quetzaltenango, 6
Que Viva México (film), 90
Quiché, 255
Quijano, Carlos, 274
Quintero, Dante, 102
Quiroga, Horacio, 35–36
Quiroga Santa Cruz, Marcelo, 252
Quito, 27–28
Ragone, Miguel, 228
Ramírez, Juan Pablo, 69
Ramos, Graciliano, 102
Rapallo, 65
Reagan, Ronald, 146, 263, 269, 272
Recife, 217
Red Cross, 121, 212
Reed, John, 37, 38, 57
Regla, 61–62
Revueltas, José, 201
Ribeirão Bonito, 223
Ribeiro, Darcy, 250
“Right to Be Born” (radio drama), 137–38
Rio Batalha, 13
Rio Coco, 182
Rio Cuarto, 238
Rio de Janiero, 9, 20, 21, 50, 51, 102, 108, 109, 114, 115, 116, 138, 155, 171, 185, 204–5, 218, 273
Rivera, Diego, 24–25, 59, 60, 61, 77
Roa, Raúl, 180–81
Roa Bastos, Augusto, 95
Robeson, Paul, 146, 147
Rockefeller, David, 246
Rockefeller, John D., 25
Rodó, José Enrique, 4
Roldós, Jaime, 260
Romão Baptista, Cicero, 63
Romero, Arnulfo, 243, 256–57
Roosevelt, Franklin D, 104, 112, 118, 119
Roosevelt, Teddy, 8
Rosa, Guimaraes, 171
Rosados family, 29
Rosa Luxemburg Committee, 53
Rosario and Light Mines Company, 19, 247
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, 145
Rosencof, Mauricio, 230
Rossell Arellano, Mariano, 152
Royal Dutch Shell, 94
Rubirosa, Porfirio, 169, 173
Ruby, Jack, 183
Rugama, Leonel, 208–9
Rulfo, Juan, 67–68, 202
Russell, Bertrand, 238
Sacasa, Juan Bautista, 94, 96
Sacco, Nicola, 65
Sagua la Grande, 12
Saint George’s, 263
Saint-Jean, Ibénco, 233
Saint-Laurent, Yves, 197
Saint Pierre, 7
Salcedo, 106
Salgadinho stream, 63
Salta, 228
Salt Lake City, 37
Salvador Allende (town), 277–78
Samedi, Baron, 124
San Albino, 62
San Andrés de Sotavento, 14
San Blas Islands, 225
Sánchez Arcilla, José, 137
the Sandinistas, 182, 235, 244, 247, 249–50, 257
Sandino, Augusto César, 31, 62, 68, 69, 70, 71, 86–88, 92, 94, 96, 196, 249
San Fernando Hill, 140
San Gabriel de Jalisco, 67
San Ignacio, 35
San Jose, Calif., 199
San José, Uruguay, 229
San José de Costa Rica, 136
San José Gratia, 3
San Juan, 188, 199
San Salvador, 93, 97, 103, 104, 150, 182, 206, 220, 221, 243, 256
Sans-Souci, 123
Santa Ana de Yacuma, 253
Santa Clara, 168
Santa Fe, 90
Santamaría, Abel, 148
Santa María volcano, 6
Santa Marta, 73, 254
Santiago de Chile, 209, 210, 212–16, 226, 251, 264, 277
Santiago de Cuba, 147, 148, 164
Santo Domingo, 84–85, 105, 158, 168, 172, 173, 184, 188, 189, 190
Santos, Gabriel dos, 205
Santos, João David dos, 273–74
Santos Dumont, Alberto, 5–6, 11–12
Sao Paulo, 272
Sao Salvador de Bahia, 114, 178
Sarrá, Ernesto and Loló, 159
Schneider, René, 209
Seattle, 147
Shell Oil, 82, 94, 99, 112
Shortridge, Senator, 70
Shultz, George, 263
Sick People (Arguedas), 18
Sicuani, 224
Sierra Maestra, 160, 167
Siles, Hernando, 81
Silva Renard, Roberto, 13
Sinú River, 162
Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 59, 61
Siuna, 247
Smith, Bessie, 65
Smith, Earl, 164–65, 168
Smith, Walter Bedell, 151
Soccer War, 206–7
Socialist Workers’ Party (Yucatán), 58
Solanille, José Julian, 233
Solentiname Archipelago, 236
Somoza, Anastasio Tacho, 94, 96, 97, 119, 152, 158
Somoza, Luis, 158, 173, 211
Somoza, Tachito, 210–12, 244, 245, 247, 248–49, 257–58
Somoza Portocarrero, Anastasio, 249
Sonora, 16
Sosúa, 184
Sotomayor, Rafael, 13
South Georgia Islands, 261
Soviet Union, 61, 70, 135, 172
Spain, 103, 109–10, 118
Spanish American Copper Company, 30
Sparkman, Senator, 175, 176
Stalin, Josef, 113
Standard Oil, 82, 94, 99, 112, 261
Statue of Liberty, 259
Stock Exchange (New York), 80–81, 85
Stockholm, 166, 167, 262
Storni, Alfonsina, 101
Stroessner, Alfredo, 258
Suárez, Roberto, 253
Sucre, 162, 255
Superman (comic strip), 120
Surahammar, 259
Sweden, 260
Sylbaris, Ludger, 7
Tabasco, 73
Tacuba, 91
Tamayo, José Luis, 53–54
Tampico, 56
Tarascan Indians, 227
Taylor, Robert, 146
Tegucigalpa, 206, 235
Téllez, Dora María, 244
Tello (Nicaraguan guerrilla), 237
Tepic, 277
Tequesquitengo, 26
Texaco Oil, 171, 273
Texas, 44
Tierra del Fuego, 7
Tiger of Ixcán, 219–20
Time (magazine), 154
Tlaltizapán, 41, 42
Tlatelolco, 200–201
Tlatelolco prison, 31
Tolima Battalion, 140
Tolstoy, Leo, 22
Toronto, 52
Torreón, 38
Torres, Camilo, 192
Torrijos, Omar, 245, 260
Tortolo, Monseñor, 234
Traven, B., 56
Trotsky, Leon, 113