{"product_id":"the-years-of-blood-stories-from-a-reporting-life-in-latin-america-by-alma-guillermoprieto-1","title":"'The Years of Blood: Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America' by Alma Guillermoprieto","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a5d7430-35d8-83ec-8537-639937f3e813-4\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" data-turn-id=\"request-6a5d7430-35d8-83ec-8537-639937f3e813-4\" data-turn-id-container=\"request-6a5d7430-35d8-83ec-8537-639937f3e813-4\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-142\" data-turn=\"assistant\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-8 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-conversation-screenshot-content=\"\" class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"20ed109f-ee9f-416f-8241-af441041beec\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-6-thinking\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"801\"\u003eAcross more than four decades, Alma Guillermoprieto has reported from Latin America’s wars, revolutions, dictatorships, insurgencies and failed democratic promises.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"801\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"260\" data-end=\"280\"\u003eThe Years of Blood\u003c\/em\u003e gathers work on Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico, moving between massacres and elections, guerrilla movements and criminal economies, political spectacle and the ordinary lives caught underneath them. It is not a neutral survey of the region, nor does Guillermoprieto pretend that journalism can float cleanly above history. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"1546\"\u003eGuillermoprieto understands ideology and state power, but she is equally attentive to posture, clothing, jokes, fear, boredom, vanity and the strange theatre through which authority makes itself believable. The collection includes her reporting on the El Mozote massacre, Colombian guerrilla warfare, the Sandinistas and their aftermath, the Mexican drug economy, and Venezuela’s collapse under Nicolás Maduro. Read together, the pieces form a history not only of bloodshed but of disappointed futures: liberation movements that become governments, governments that become rackets, and populations repeatedly asked to survive somebody else’s grand design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1548\" data-end=\"2016\"\u003eThis is political writing with literary intelligence but none of literary journalism’s usual self-regarding perfume. For readers of Ryszard Kapuściński, Svetlana Alexievich, Jon Lee Anderson or the best long-form work of \u003cem data-start=\"1926\" data-end=\"1942\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1947\" data-end=\"1977\"\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2018\" data-end=\"2162\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDuke University Press first edition, 2025. 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