Patrick Symmes, foreign correspondent and contributor to Outside and Harper's. 

Show notes:

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Symmes's Outside archive

Symmes's Harper's archive

[2:30] Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend (2000)

[7:00] The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile (2008)

[21:45] "Taking the Measure of Castro, Ounce by Ounce" (Harper's • Jan 1996) (subscription required)

[22:00] "Ten Thousand Revolutions" (Harper's • June 1997) (subscription required)

[23:00] "The Generals in Their Labyrinth" (Outside • July 2008)

[24:30] "Miraculous Fishing" (Harper's • Dec 2000) (subscription required)

[35:00] "Sand Storm" (Outside • May 2011)

[39:00] "The Beautiful Game" (Outside • Oct 2012)

[42:00] Among the Thugs (Bill Buford • 1993)

[49:30] "A Wild Country Grows in South Sudan" (Outside • May 2013)

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