Esta improbable tierra prometida : Historias de una vida dedicada al periodismo en Latinoamérica

For more than forty years, Alma Guillermoprieto has tirelessly traveled throughout Latin America, interviewing murderers and the families of their victims, speaking with street sweepers and artists, with boisterous carnival revelers and circumspect religious figures, with thoughtful politicians and theatrical leaders. Guillermoprieto draws out common threads between diverse people and contexts, such as the effects of the war on drugs in rural and impoverished regions or the experiences of those caught up in state-sponsored or cartel-sponsored violence. At the same time, she shows how the art of these regions translates nostalgia and pain into something beautiful, or how journalism can raise its voice against injustice. In *This Improbable Promised Land*, her third volume of chronicles, she completes her complex and consistently compelling portrait of contemporary Latin America, in all its tragedy and glory, in an age of populism and demagoguery, and attempts, once again, to answer the great unanswered question: how do we change our future so that it doesn't so closely resemble our past?