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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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ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-6038-3
Publication date:
2025
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In the New Gangland of El Salvador

Doi:
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478060383-011
  • Published:
    March 2025

This chapter reveals today’s El Salvador—destroyed by violence during a civil war that lasted through the 1980s—where teenage street gangs impose new forms of terror.

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