Alma Guillermoprieto

Alma Guillermoprieto often writes on Latin America in these pages. Her most recent book is Dancing with Cuba. (December 2008)

From the Review

December 18, 2008: A Lost World on the Map*

Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 edited by Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions

September 21, 2006: The New Bolivia: II*

August 10, 2006: A New Bolivia?*

October 20, 2005: The Gambler*

October 20, 2005: The Cuban Connection*

October 6, 2005: Don't Cry for Me, Venezuela*

Chávez, un hombre que anda por ahí: Una entrevista con Hugo Chávez by Aleida Guevara

Hugo Chávez sin uniforme: Una historia personal by Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka

La Revolución como espectáculo by Colette Capriles

Hugo Chávez: The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela by Richard Gott

August 12, 2004: 'The Morning Quickie'*

June 10, 2004: Letter (letter)

October 10, 2002: Confessions of a Killer*

Mi confesión:Carlos Castaño revela sus secretos by Mauricio Aranguren Molina

May 11, 2000: The Children's War*

April 27, 2000: Colombia: Violence Without End?*

April 13, 2000: Our New War in Colombia*

January 14, 1999: Cuban Hit Parade*

Buena Vista Social Club recording produced by Ry Cooder

Afro-Cuban All Stars: A Toda Cuba le Gusta recording produced by Nick Gold, by Juan de Marcos González

Introducing…Rubén González recording produced by Nick Gold

October 22, 1998: Fidel in the Evening

Fidel Castro y la religion: Conversaciones con Frei Betto

Alina: Memorias de la hija rebelde de Fidel Castro [Memoirs of the Rebel Daughter of Fidel Castro] Not in My Father's House (St. Martin's) by Alina Fernández

Memorias de un soldado cubano: Vida y muerte de la Revolución by Dariel Alarcón Ramírez, by ("Benigno")

June 11, 1998: Love and Misery in Cuba*

March 26, 1998: A Visit to Havana*

October 3, 1996: Mexico: Murder Without Justice*

Deposition of Raúl Salinas de Gortari published in Epoca

Lessons of the Mexican Peso Crisis Foreign Relations, John C. Whitehead, Chairman, Marie-Josée Kravis, Project Director. Report of an Independent Task Force sponsored by the Council on

The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the United States by Jorge G. Castañeda

Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity by Andres Oppenheimer

March 2, 1995: The Shadow War*

Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas by George Collier, by Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello, foreword by Peter Rosset

Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas by John Ross

EZLN: Documentos y comunicados documents in EZLN: Documentos y comunicados has recently been published in the US: Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, translated by Frank Bardacke, Leslie López, and the Watsonville, California, Human Rights Committee; introduction by John Ross, afterword by Frank Bardacke (Monthly Review Press, 1995).) (A collection of the writings of Subcomandante Marcos.)

May 26, 1994: The Bitter Education of Vargas Llosa*

A Fish in the Water: A Memoir by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane

Books by Alma Guillermoprieto

Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America (2001)
The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now (1994)
Samba (1990)