Alma Guillermoprieto: The Years of Blood

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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?

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478031390
ISBN-10:	1478031395
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Guillermoprieto, Alma
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Alma Guillermoprieto
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.04.2025
Gewicht:	0,408 kg