Product Description: El conflicto civil en El Salvador, la crisis de Granada, la masacre del Mozote, el éxito internacional del grupo adolescente latinoamericano Menudo, la proliferación de sectas y religiones en Río de Janeiro o la lucha entre el gobierno peruano y Sendero Luminoso son solo algunos de los temas que trata Alma Guillermoprieto en sus legendarias crónicas...read more

Traces the six-month period spent by the author in 1970 Cuba, a time during which she worked as a dance instructor, came to understand the idealism of the Castro-adoring locals, and formed the belief system that was to set the tone for her career as an award-winning journalist.

Traces the six-month period spent by the author in 1970 Cuba, a time during which she worked as a dance instructor, came to understand the idealism of the Castro-adoring locals, and formed the belief system that was to set the tone for her career as an award-winning journalist. 20,000 first printing.

The Latin American correspondent for The New Yorker offers a series of eloquent and incisive essays on Latin America as she describes three nations--Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico--and their complex problems, while profiling such key figures as Eva Per=n, Che Guevara, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

In the Mexican state of Chiapas in the 1930s, poverty, illiteracy, and rage contribute to an uprising among the descendants of the Mayan Indians

'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 faithfulperseverance with which people strive to believe. Beautifully written vignettes of life in Bogotâa, Managua, Mexico City, Lima, Buenos Aires, and La Paz illuminate both constants and differences in the political cultures of Latin America'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Looks at conditions in seven Latin American countries and includes stories about garbage pickers, young hired killers, terrorists, and the election of President Chamorro (view table of contents)

A Mexican dancer and journalist in Rio de Janeiro describes the life and culture of Black Brazilians, drawing on her experiences with samba players in Rio's slums