''Holidays in Hell'' is a non-fiction book by

P.J. O'Rourke Patrick Jake O'Rourke (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022) was an American libertarian political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke was the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and a regular correspondent for ''Th ...

about his visits to areas of conflict during the 1980s as a foreign correspondent, as well as to some less high-profile locations.

Places visited

Lebanon, October 1984

During the Lebanon Civil War

Korea, December 1987

After the

June Struggle The June Democratic Struggle (), also known as the June Democracy Movement and June Democratic Uprising, was a nationwide pro-democracy movement in South Korea that generated mass protests from June 10 to June 29, 1987. The demonstrations force ...

, during the chaos that accompanied the democratic elections that followed.

Panama, July 1987

During the Manuel Noriega regime, and the protests against it.

Poland, May 1986

Under Soviet control and communism.

United States

* January 1987:

Heritage USA Heritage USA was an American Christian-themed water park, theme park and residential complex in Fort Mill, South Carolina, built by televangelist Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye Bakker, founders of ''The PTL Club''. The park, which occupied ...

* September 1986:

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

350th anniversary celebration * May 1983:

Epcot Epcot, stylized in all uppercase as EPCOT, is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, Experiences and Products division. Inspired by an unreal ...

* December 1987: Reagan/Gorbachev Summit

Philippines, March 1987

After the end of the Marcos regime

El Salvador

During the

Salvadoran Civil War The Salvadoran Civil War ( es, guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or ...

Australia, February 1987

At the America's Cup

South Africa, December 1986

During

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

, but during the period in which activists in the United States and Europe were calling for

divestment from South Africa Disinvestment (or divestment) from South Africa was first advocated in the 1960s, in protest against South Africa's system of apartheid, but was not implemented on a significant scale until the mid-1980s. The disinvestment campaign, after bein ...

Various nations in western Europe, April-May 1986

Nicaragua, September 1987

During the Sandinista period, and when the U.S. backed Contras were waging a civil war.

Mexico, October 1986

Israel, January 1988

References

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