In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than five months and began translating short fiction by prominent Mexican and Cuban writers. These stories, as he wrote to a friend, explore 鈥渢he revolutions and uprisings, sugar cane, Negroes, Indians, corrupt generals, [and] American imperialists,鈥� and are 鈥渕ostly all left stories, because practically all the writers down here are left these days.鈥� Please join Taylor & Co. 快色直播 in welcoming Ricardo Wilson II, editor of Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston Hughes.