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Looking for History

Dispatches from Latin America

Dispatches from Latin America

By Alma Guillermoprieto

By Alma Guillermoprieto

By Alma Guillermoprieto

By Alma Guillermoprieto

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    About Looking for History

    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.

    About Looking for History

    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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    About Alma Guillermoprieto

    Alma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of Looking for History, The Heart That Bleeds, and Samba, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and… More about Alma Guillermoprieto

    About Alma Guillermoprieto

    Alma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of Looking for History, The Heart That Bleeds, and Samba, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and… More about Alma Guillermoprieto

    Product Details

    Category: Latin American World History | World Politics

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 12, 2002 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375725821

    Category: Latin American World History | World Politics

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 18, 2007 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307426673
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    Praise

    “A master…. The countries of Latin America now have their Orwell.”–David Remnick

    “Brilliant…objective journalism.”–Voice Literary Supplement

    “Her fearless reporting, as well as her eloquent descriptions and character sketches, hold the reader’s attention rapt.”–The Wall Street Journal

    “The reader senses her love for Latin America, in all its ruinous, messy, historied glory.” —Brill’s Content

    Table Of Contents

    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

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