In the third volume of her collected stories, Guillermoprieto completes her complex and always compelling portrait of the Latin America of our times, in all its tragedy and glory, as it traverses a new era of populism and demagoguery, and tries, yet again, to answer the great unsolved question: How do we change?
In the third volume of her collected stories, Guillermoprieto completes her complex and always compelling portrait of the Latin America of our times, in all its tragedy and glory, as it traverses a new era of populism and demagoguery, and tries, yet again, to answer the great unsolved question: How do we change?
Alma Guillermoprieto’s reports from the field have been published in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and National Geographic magazine. Among many other distinctions, she has received a MacArthur Fellowship and the Princess of Asturias Humanities Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a laureate of the George Polk Awards in Journalism.
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Introduction. A Reporting Life in Latin America 1 Part I. South America 1. Bolivia’s Tarnished Savior 11 2. In the Wrestling Rings of Bolivia 21 3. Don’t Cry for me, Venezuela 27 4. Confrontation in Colombia 41 5. Colombia’s Healing Begins 51 6. Confessions of a Killer 61 7. Claudia Andujar: Witness to Yanomami’s Last Struggle 73 Part II. Central America 8. Nicaragua’s Dreadful Duumvirate 83 9. Death Comes for the Archbishop 95 10. In the New Gangland of El Salvador 103 Part III. Mexico 11. “The Morning Quickie” 117 12. The Mission of Father Maciel 131 13. Troubled Spirits 139 14. Risking Life for Truth 149 15. A Voice against the Darkness 157 16. Making the Dogs Dance 161 17. A Lost World on the Map 167 18. The High Art of the Tamale 179 19. The Twisting Nature of Love: Alfonso CuarÓn’s Roma 187 20. Forty-Three Students Went Missing: What Really Happened to Them? 213 Acknowledgments 239
Introduction. A Reporting Life in Latin America 1 Part I. South America 1. Bolivia’s Tarnished Savior 11 2. In the Wrestling Rings of Bolivia 21 3. Don’t Cry for me, Venezuela 27 4. Confrontation in Colombia 41 5. Colombia’s Healing Begins 51 6. Confessions of a Killer 61 7. Claudia Andujar: Witness to Yanomami’s Last Struggle 73 Part II. Central America 8. Nicaragua’s Dreadful Duumvirate 83 9. Death Comes for the Archbishop 95 10. In the New Gangland of El Salvador 103 Part III. Mexico 11. “The Morning Quickie” 117 12. The Mission of Father Maciel 131 13. Troubled Spirits 139 14. Risking Life for Truth 149 15. A Voice against the Darkness 157 16. Making the Dogs Dance 161 17. A Lost World on the Map 167 18. The High Art of the Tamale 179 19. The Twisting Nature of Love: Alfonso CuarÓn’s Roma 187 20. Forty-Three Students Went Missing: What Really Happened to Them? 213 Acknowledgments 239
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