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Un placer de lectura, repleta de humanidad, astucia, curiosidad y conocimiento. Una de las crónicas más astutas y elocuentes de la América Latina contemporánea... Guillermoprieto hace una descripción íntima y conmovedora, dura e inteligente de la vida cotidiana durante la revolución. San Francisco Chronicle Un placer de lectura, repleta de humanidad, astucia, curiosidad y conocimiento. The Ne...

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1970 verließ die junge Mexikanerin Alma Guillermoprieto New York, um in Havanna als Dozentin an der Staatlichen Ballettschule zu lehren. Fast ein Jahr lang arbeitete sie in Studios ohne Spiegel. Ihre schlecht ausgebildeten, aber vor Ehrgeiz glühenden Schüler trainierten ohne dieses als individualistisch verschrieene Hilfsmittel. Und doch fand die junge Frau inmitten chronischen Mangels und revolutionärem Durcheinander ein Volk von begeisterten...

From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America's recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia's cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can write with s...

In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba's National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary), her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever. In...

For one year, Alma Guillermoprieto lived in Manguiera, a village near Rio de Janeiro, to learn the ritual of samba--the sensuous song and dance marked by a rapturous beat--and to take part in Rio's renowned carnivale parade.

An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.