Viva South America!

– A Journey through a Restless Continent –

“Simón Bolívar once inspired a continent to rise from serfdom and throw off the shackles of Spanish rule. In Viva South America! Oliver Balch sets out to discover if Bolivar’s dream lives on. The quest takes the reader off the tourist trail and into the weird and wonderful worlds of South American culture and society. By stepping into people’s homes and inmates’ prison cells, by climbing on to dance floors and over road blocks, Balch unearths untold stories from the front line of South America’s contemporary fight for freedom.”