Graham Greene: Lawless Roads
In 1938 Graham Greene travelled to Mexico to investigate the state of the country after the anti-clerical purges of the Calles government.
He travelled through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where the repression of Catholicism had been most severe.
The experience is recorded in The Lawless Roads and provided the material and inspiration for his novel The Power and the Glory.
I wrote this review of The Lawless Roads in 2003.