Alma Guillermoprieto

Looking for History (eBook, ePUB)

Dispatches from Latin America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America's recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia's cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can write with such acumen and sympathy about statesmen and campesinos, leftist revolutionaries and right-wing militias, and political figures from Evita Peron to Mexico's irrepressible president, Vicente Fox. Whether she is following the historic papal visit to Havana or staying awake for a pre-dawn interview with an insomniac Subcomandante Marcos, Guillermoprieto displays both the passion and knowledge of an insider and the perspective of a seasoned analyst. Looking for History is journalism in the finest traditions of Joan Didion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryszard Kapucinski: observant, empathetic, and beautifully written.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307426673
• Artikelnr.: 39246987

Autorenporträt

Alma Guillermoprieto lives in Mexico City.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Eva Perón
Little Eva
Colombia
Our New War in Colombia
Violence Without End?
The Children’s War
Ernesto “Che” Guevara
The Harsh Angel
Cuba
A Visit to Havana
Love and Misery in Cuba
Fidel in the Evening
Mario Vargas Llosa
The Bitter Education of Vargas Llosa
Mexico
Losing the Future
Zapata’s Heirs
The Unmasking
The Only Way to Win?
Whodunnit?
The Riddle of Raúl
The Peso
Elections 2000