Yet another looming casualty of the Information Age is the iconic roving foreign correspondent. These days, when any clown with a cell phone can capture footage of streets riots in Cairo and Tripoli, the events themselves—often stripped of all context—become just the latest media blips in a never-ending parade of near-meaningless “news stories.” In Never the Hope Itself: Love and Ghosts in Latin America and Haiti, ex-National Public Radio correspondent Gerry Hadden offers a welcome corrective to this trend, as well as a reminder that turbulence in these regions is nothing new.