Wow. This is not for the faint of heart. It reads like a 544-page New Yorker exposé, so do get comfy before you crack it open, but then expect to have your mind blown. Even after an undergraduate minor in Spanish (ahem... some years ago) and a year-long graduate course on US-Latin American relations this year, I wasn't fully prepared for all the knowledge this book dumps your way. The clarity is matched only by the humanity of it all (well, except for Stephen Miller, but that's a given). I found myself periodically setting the book aside and looking up the people whom the book follows, to read more interviews of theirs. As the US is gearing up for Republican and Democratic conventions in the next few weeks, with the pall of "Project 2025" swirling around in the media, it's especially chilling to read how fragile democracy has been in the Northern triangle, and even in the US starting in 2016. This is a challenging read, but immensely rewarding.