A01=Alma Guillermoprieto
Author_Alma Guillermoprieto
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Central America
disappeared
El Salado massacre
El Salvador
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gang violence
Hugo Chavez
journalism
Latin America
Mexico
Nicaragua
South America
Venezuela
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9781478031390
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For forty years and more Alma Guillermoprieto has wandered tirelessly over the countries of Latin America, interviewing assassins and the families of their victims, talking to street sweepers and artists, rowdy carnival makers and thoughtful politicians (and plenty of rowdy politicians as well). Guillermoprieto draws out common threads in different contexts, like the effects of The War on Drugs in rural and poverty-stricken regions and the experiences of people mixed up in the fray of state- or cartel-sponsored violence. At the same time, she shows how Latin American art translates nostalgia and pain into great beauty. In The Years of Blood, the third volume of her collected reporting, she completes her complex and always compelling portrait of the Latin America of our times, in all its tragedy and glory, as it enters a new era of populism and demagoguery, and tries, yet again, to answer the great unsolved question: How do we change our future so that it does not so exhaustingly resemble our past?
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.
