book review

The Shadow Catcher by Hipolito Acosta

Book Review: The Shadow Catcher

By Samantha Leal | 06/03/2012 - 13:00 | 0 Comments

The Shadow Catcher, the debut novel by Hipolito Acosta, chronicles the life of the author as a U.S. Government Agent, as he worked for 30 years, mostly undercover, infiltrating Mexico’s immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels.

Poli, as he likes to be called, rose in the ranks from Border Patrol Agent to a key position in the...

Sugar & Baseball

By Angie Romero | 05/21/2010 - 18:00 | 1 Comment

The other day I watched a short from the Columbia University Film Festival about baseball players in the Dominican Republic called The Ballplayer, which, in turn, reminded me of another film which I still rave about to this day: Sugar. Along the same lines, a new book by award-winning author Mark Kurlansky, who is known to find meaningful...