Viva La Revolucion: Hobsbawm On Latin AmericaIn his autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life, published in 2002 when he was eighty five years old, the historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917 2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal languages, Spanish and Portuguese, were within his reach. But he was