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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-003.mrc:393646949:3752
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008 930824s1994 nyu 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aF1414.2$b.G77 1994
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100 1 $aGuillermoprieto, Alma,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88234751
245 14 $aThe heart that bleeds :$bLatin America now /$cAlma Guillermoprieto.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c1994.
300 $axiii, 345 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
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520 1 $a"Alma Guillermoprieto - award-winning journalist and author of Samba - was raised in Mexico. She learned her trade working for newspapers and magazines in England and the United States and makes her home in New York but still spends much of her time immersed - physically and psychologically - in Latin America, her journalistic beat. Given this background, she is uniquely suited to the task of revealing one culture to another, a task she accomplishes with remarkable power and authority in these thirteen evocative reportages. Originally written for The New Yorker between 1989 and 1993, they dramatize the turmoils of eight Latin-American nations as they make their fitful approach - sometimes lurching, sometimes explosive - toward modernity." "Here are the amazing communities of Mexico's garbage pickers, whose lives center on the mountains of refuse they sift for a living. Here are amiable young killers-for-hire in a Colombia terrorized by its drug traffickers. We are shown how, in Panama, affordable cocaine (dropping from forty dollars a gram, adulterated, to one dollar a hit, pure) has been among the paradoxical legacies of the American invasion. In Nicaragua, we witness the totally unexpected victory of Violeta Chamorro over the Sandinistas for the presidency; in Peru, we move among the fanatics of the murderous Shining Path; in Rio de Janeiro, we mingle with the worshippers of God Is Love, one of the evangelical churches making huge inroads among the followers of Brazil's African-heritage religions." "Alma Guillermoprieto writes in her preface that she is obsessed with "violence, inequality, survival, the faithlessness of politicians, the faithful stubbornness with which people seek to believe. These topics occupy the attention of people in other regions of the world, of course, but it seems to me as a Latin American that for us they are such urgent issues, and so inescapable, that they surface in our dreams and in our needlework, in our love lives, our literature, and even in the way we dispose of our garbage." Her vivid rendering of Latin America is grounded in this visceral knowledge of the fabric of everyday life there, as well as in her astute understanding of the political and social framework that supports it. The Heart That Bleeds is a riveting and necessary book - a revelation of Latin America in chaotic transition."--BOOK JACKET.
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651 0 $aLatin America$xSocial conditions$y1945-1982.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074917
651 0 $aLatin America$xEconomic conditions$y1982-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005678
651 0 $aLatin America$xMoral conditions.
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