Third World Poverty

Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua the author's hometown has an English name Bluefields and was the former capital of the onetime British protectorate called Mosquitia. Added to this exotic background during his boyhood in the 1930's Nicaragua was under U.S. Marine Occupation and the country's entire Caribbean region was in effect an Anglo-American enclave which led to his latino friends nicknaming him a gringo hechizo or Counterfeit Gringo. This dual heritage with its intimate experiencing of both American and Third World lifestyles is what makes his comments on the current cultural clash between the Western and non-Western worlds as outlined in these three brief works an unique assessment of this most challenging and dangerous international conflict.</p>