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Alma Guillermoprieto is an accomplished Latin American journalist renowned for her in-depth reporting on political, social, and cultural issues in the region. Born on May 27, 1949, she grew up in Mexico City and began her career in journalism there.

The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now

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Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy”

Body Democracy Integrity Healthy Structure Constant Bones Journalism Contribution Collapse Consistently Invaluable Journalistic Enterprising

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.”

Wise Fool Wise Sayings

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.”

Enemy Magic Essentials Surprise

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“For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.”

Way Kids Known Delinquency

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“One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.”

Doe Language Given

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.”

Mind May Details Practicals Individualism Concrete

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?”

Ifs Happens Next Left Wonder One Day California

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“Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.”

People Thinking Doe Two Different Language Talking Produce Personality Assuming Two Personalities

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.”

Ifs Thinking Years Long Seems Childhood Revolution News I Realized Traveled Cuban Havana Cuban Revolution Daily News

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.”

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“So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.”

Ifs Knows Feels House Citizens Mexican Manhattan New Yorkers

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.”

Whole Happens Turns Language Skills Brands Awe Slips Nevertheless Gloves Brand New Translators

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.”

Ifs Happiness Joy Laughter Smile No Point Make You Smile Samba

Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.”

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“You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.”

Knows Years Littles Two Three Five Four Boring Five Years Two Years Marcos

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“If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.”

Ifs Want Young Dies Myth Die Young

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“The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.”

Jobs Cities Paid Construction Mexico Mexico City

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“I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Facts Care Efficient Reporters I Care

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“The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.”

Years Has Beens Hard Able America Left Source Drug Taxes Income Latin Latin America Colombia Guerrillas

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“Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.”

Writing Wells Persons Long Courses Memories Saws Looking Back Reporters Observant

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Born: May 27, 1949
Known for: Journalist
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