Alma Guillermoprieto’s reports from the field have been published in the
South America
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Published:March 2025
Chapter 1 charts the fall of Evo Morales, a most unusual politician, who helped transform his country, Bolivia, and then overstayed his welcome.
El Alto is Bolivia’s second-largest city, and the unofficial capital of the Aymara people of the Andes. Chapter 2 describes how a new form of lucha libre, or costumed wrestling, has taken El Alto by storm.
Chapter 3 provides an in-depth account and analysis of the rise of Hugo Chávez to political power in Venezuela.
Chapter 4 recounts the unprecedented outburst of antigovernment protest all across Colombia that forced a reevaluation of the country’s 2016 Peace Process and brought the administration of ultraconservative Ivan Duque to a crisis.
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