Enjoy this exclusive excerpt from Belén Fernández’s new book Checkpoint Zipolite: Quarantine in a Small Place, a story about getting stuck during the pandemic and a no-holds-barred critique of the politicians who are largely responsible for the scale of the disaster.

On the media, propaganda, and the alleged ‘secret connections’ between Latin American narco-traffickers and Middle Eastern jihadists.

A brief history of imperial servitude…

A “special terrorist” is killed, but remains a mystery…

A tour through the lighter side of the sometimes brutal U.S.-allied nation…