Facundo

Civilization and Barbarism: Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga (original Spanish title: Civilización i Barbarie: Vida de Juan Facundo Quiroga), later published and better known as Facundo, is a book written in 1845 by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a writer and journalist who became the seventh president of Argentina. It is a cornerstone of Latin American literature: a work of creative non-fiction that helped to define the parameters for thinking about the region's development, modernization, power, and culture. Subtitled Civilization and Barbarism, Facundo contrasts civilization and barbarism as seen