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Alma Guillermoprieto Biography

Alma Guillermoprieto (born May 27, 1949) is a Mexican journalist who has written extensively about Latin America for the British and American press. Her writings have also been widely disseminated within the Spanish-speaking world.

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What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

California, Day, Mexicans, Next, One Day, Wonder

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Cities, Construction, Day, Job, Jobs, Mexico

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

Delinquency, Kids, Known, Slightest, Way

Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy

Democracy, Healthy, Integrity, Journalism, Structure

I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.

Dying, Food, Real, Thinking, Time, Working

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

Anywhere, Garden, Home, Mexican, Pretty, Washed

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Long, Memories, Person, Reporter, Writing

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

Marcos, Three, Two, Years

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

Completely, Gloves, Language, Skills, Slip, Thing

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Details, Like, May, Mind, Practical, Things

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

Doe, Given, Givens, Language, Take, Takes

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Happiness, Laughter, Point, Samba, Smile

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

Fool, Recover, Saying, Wise, Wise Sayings

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