Alma Guillermoprieto

The Years of Blood

Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America

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Produktbeschreibung

The Years of Blood collects the most significant stories by journalist Alma Guillermoprieto, completing 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028178
• ISBN-10: 1478028173
• Artikelnr.: 70955847

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. A Reporting Life in Latin America  1
Part I. South America
1. Bolivia’s Tarnished Savior  13
2. In the Wrestling Rings of Bolivia  23
3. Don’t Cry for me, Venezuela  29
4. Confrontation in Colombia  43
5. Colombia’s Healing Begins  53
6. Confessions of a Killer  63
7. Claudia Andujar: Witness to Yanomami’s Last Struggle  75
Part II. Central America
8. Nicaragua’s Dreadful Duumvirate  85
9. Death Comes for the Archbishop  97
10. In the New Gangland of El Salvador  105
Part III.
11. “The Morning Quickie”  119
12. The Mission of Father Maciel  133
13. Troubled Spirits  141
14. Risking Life for Truth  149
15. A Voice against the Darkness  159
16. Making the Dogs Dance  163
17. A Lost World on the Map  169
18. The High Art of the Tamale  181
19. The Twisting Nature of Love: Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma  189
20. Forty-Three Students Went Missing: What Really Happened to Them?  215
Acknowledgments  241