Looking for History Dispatches from Latin America

Name: Looking for History Dispatches from Latin America
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ISBN: 9780375725821

ISBN-10: 0375725822

ISBN-13: 9780375725821

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Authors: Alma Guillermoprieto

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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…

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List price: $22.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.18" wide x 7.98" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Alma Guillermoprieto worked for "The Washington Post" before joining "The New Yorker" in the late 1980s. She also writes for "The New York Review of Books". She is the author of two previous books, "Samba" & "The Heart That Bleeds" (both available from Vintage) & was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. She lives in Mexico City.



Introduction Eva Perï¿½n 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?


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