Tio Sam
Christopher Hitchens, 20 December 1990
In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama 1968-89
by R.M. Koster and Guillermo Sanchez Borbon.
Secker, 430 pp., £17.99, October 1990,0 436 20016 3 Show More
by R.M. Koster and Guillermo Sanchez Borbon.
Secker, 430 pp., £17.99, October 1990,
“... and in the short term some hybrid of capitalism and feudalism will probably be the winner. R.M. Koster and Guillermo Sanchez Borbon, respectively an American novelist and a Panamanian columnist, have done well to reinstate the antique term ‘tyrant’ over the modern, purposeful word ‘dictator’. Tyrants, after all, are in power in order to be in ... ”
