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The Years of Blood: Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America
By
Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto

Alma Guillermoprieto’s reports from the field have been published in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and National Geographic magazine. Among many other distinctions, she has received a MacArthur Fellowship and the Princess of Asturias Humanities Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a laureate of the George Polk Awards in Journalism.

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478060383
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This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-6038-3
Publication date:
2025
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Death Comes for the Archbishop

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https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478060383-010
  • Published:
    March 2025

The murder in El Salvador of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero in 1980, now canonized as Saint Romero by the Catholic Church, is remembered in this chapter, along with his political stand in defense of the poor and oppressed, which made him a target.

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