The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now
by Alma Guillermoprieto
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"Poignant stories capturing the essence of everyday life for average Latin Americans. This New Yorker essayist and Mexican-born journalist perspicaciously covers topics from violence, inequality, and survival to the faithless politicians and the faithful perseverance with which people strive to believe. Beautifully written vignettes of life in Bogotá, Managua, Mexico City, Lima, Buenos Aires, and La Paz illuminate both constants and differences in the political cultures of Latin show more America"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. show lessTags
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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. (Bowker Author show more Biography) show less
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government
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- 980.033 — History & geography History of South America History of South America History of South America 1830-1999 1918-1949
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- F1414.2 .G77 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America Latin America (General)
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