Alma Guillermoprieto
Basics
Alma Guillermoprieto (Wikipedia).
On the Web: Articles
Woman Fights to Publicly Breast-Feed Her Baby. Washington Post (8/31/82).
Murder in Juárez (interview). Amy Davidson, New Yorker Online (9/22/03).
Alma Guillermoprieto (interview). Esther Allen, Bomb (spr 04).
Alma Guillermoprieto (interview). Robert Birnbaum, Identity Theory (6/14/05).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Guillermoprieto, Alma. "The bitter education of Vargas Llosa," NY Review (5/26/94). Review essay on VL's memoir A Fish in the Water.
__________. "The shadow war," NY Review (3/2/95). Review essay on three books about then-recent EZLN revolt in Chiapas.
__________. "Mexico: murder without justice," NY Review (10/3/96). Review essay on works examining Mexican politics in the 90s.
__________. "Introduction" to Rosario Castellanos, The Book of Lamentations (trans. EstherAllen; NY: Marsilio, 1996).
__________. "A visit to Havana," NY Review (3/26/98). Pope John Paul II in Cuba.
__________. "Love & misery in Cuba," NY Review (6/11/98).
__________. "Fidel in the evening," NY Review (10/22/98). Review essay on
__________. "Cuban hit parade," NY Review (1/14/99). Review essay on "Buena Vista Social Club" & other recent recordings of Cuban music.
__________. "Our new war in Colombia," NY Review (4/13/00). Consequences of funding "Plan Colombia."
__________. "Colombia: violence without end?" NY Review (4/27/00).
__________. "The children's war," NY Review (5/11/00). War against Colombian FARC in the Amazon.
__________. "Confessions of a killer," NY Review (10/10/02). Review essay on Colombian right-wing paramilitary leader Carlos Castaño's Mi confesión.
__________. "The morning quickie," NY Review (8/12/04). Political difficulties of Mexico City mayor Andrés López Obrador.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Guillermoprieto, Alma. Samba (NY: Random House, 1990).
__________, The Heart that Bleeds: Latin America Now (NY: Knopf, 1994).
__________. Los años en que no fuimos felices: crónicas de la transición mexicana (México: Plaza y Janés, 1999).
__________. Al pie de un volcán te escribo (México: Plaza y Janés, 2000).
__________. Las guerras en Colombia: tres ensayos (trans. Laura Emilia Pacheco; Bogotá: Aguilar, 2000).
__________. Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America (NY: Vintage, 2001).
__________. Historia escrita: Marcos, Evita, el Che, Fedel, Vargas Llosa (México: Plaza y Janés, 2001).
__________. Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution (trans. Esther Allen; NY: Pantheon, 2004).