Get up and stand up

Not backing down: Since his comeback victory in 2006, Ortega’s government has disallowed foreign observers, abolished term limits, dominated the media and used the courts to undermine the opposition. — AFP

I’M reading two very different books right now. The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (published in 1938, revised in 1962) and Catch A Fire by Timothy White (published in 1983, revised in 2000).

The former is a brilliant revisitation of the Haitian slave rebellion of the 1790s and the emergence of Toussaint L’Ouverture as its dominant figure. The latter is a comprehensive biography of reggae legend Bob Marley.