El Ni帽o in History: Storming through the ages by C茅sar
Caviedes, University Press of Florida, $24.95, ISBN 0813020999
THE rogue ocean current El Ni帽o has a hidden hand in human affairs,
says C茅sar Caviedes. Its history unfolds like a Greek tragedy. However
hard the protagonists fight it, destiny rules.
According to Caviedes, empires from Asia to the Andes have risen and fallen
at its whim. General El Ni帽o defeated Hitler at Stalingrad. Nearly a
thousand kilometres north and 130 years earlier, the wiles of his sister La
Ni帽a, the flipside of this climatic phenomenon, defeated…
