The Years of Blood
Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America
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Product details:
- Publisher Duke University Press Books
- Date of Publication 25 April 2025
- Number of Volumes Trade Paperback
- ISBN 9781478031390
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 illustrations 700
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Short description:
The Years of Blood collects the most significant stories by journalist Alma Guillermoprieto, completing her complex and always compelling portrait of the Latin America of our times, in all its tragedy and glory, as it traverses a new era of populism and demagoguery.
MoreLong description:
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?
“No writer captures the joy and the pain of life in Latin America like Alma Guillermoprieto. This collection goes far beyond the usual headlines to explore the deeper currents shaping the human experiences of everyone who lives in our hemisphere.”
Table of Contents:
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
