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Images of labour: A banana plantation in William Eleroy Curtis' "The Smallest of American Republics" published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1887

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"The Hand Car" from Oran, contained in the article "Tropical Journeyings: the Panama Railroad" and published in the 1985 January edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine. It perfectly condenses the constructed imaginary of Central America: three white executives intent on their conversation, cross the lush tropical vegetation in a hand car, worked by workers whose faces and bodies blur into the dark of the forest. Exotic landscapes and bodies, racial stereotypes, labour hierarchies and mechanical progress. An imaginary forged in colonial relations that still pervade in many discourses and representations of the region.

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Joaquín Rodríguez del Paso, "Hotel América - Cheap Labour". Or how under the lush pacified tropical Arcadia laid the exploitation logics of global labour.