Red Rumba – A Journey through the Caribbean and Central America –

“The author’s four and a half month visit to the Caribbean began and ended in Cuba, tense and trigger-happy at first impression, but by the time he returned there the country was settling down to right old wrongs and introduce the commodity most lacking and most needed in all Latin-American countries – education.

The rest of his trip took the author through the banana and coffee republics of Central America. He arrived in the Dominican Republic just after the assassination of President Trujillo; saw ‘the Ruhr of Central America’, El Salvador; Guatemala, full of volcanoes and ruins; Honduras, redolent of O. Henry; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Puerto Rico; and sinister Haiti.”