Marko Pogacar

Neon South Marko Pogacar

Latino Americana is an off-the-beaten-path Central and South American travel narrative that prefers to dwell and lurk in the shadows with locals all too aware of how outside influences, from colonialism to globalism, have changed their lives.

From the drug cartel-controlled squares of Mexico to Venezuelan jungles where the outside world threatens traditions, Marko Pogacar absorbs all he encounters and fuses those experiences with his memories of living through the dissolution of Yugoslavia, finding surprising similarities:

"After all, are our customs, our kingdoms, our churches and wars, our arsons and human sacrifices one iota different from the Aztec ones?"