In Search of Freedom...

About the Book

This novel deals with the struggle since the times of the conquest of most Latin American countries to achieve peace, democracy and liberty. For the last 500 years, most of these countries have experienced the exploitation, repression and oppression from the hands of national and international forces. That situation has forced some of these countries to attempt to achieve democracy, freedom and peace through armed revolutions. Unfortunately, those countries have learned the hard way that violence is not the proper avenue to achieve the desired liberation.

About the Author

Born and raised in Costa Rica, one of a few Latin American Countries with great economic and political stability, the author learned since he was a young student in high school to value peace and democracy. During his school years, the author got to know in detail the political reality of other Latin American countries that lived under the yoke of military juntas and dictatorships. This inspired him to study in detail the situation of those countries. Eventually, he obtained his bachelor's degree in Political Sciences with emphasis in Comparative Latin American Politics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Later on, he obtained his Master's Degree in Public Administration from the California State University, Northridge. In this novel, the author brings to us the struggle of some Latin American countries to reach peace, liberty and democracy. The struggle continues. This a permanent revolution.