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- Alma Guillermoprieto 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. Guillermoprieto was born and grew up in Mexico City. In her teens, she moved to New York City with her mother where she studied modern dance for several years. From 1962 until 1973, she was a professional dancer. In the mid-1970s, she started her career as a journalist for The Guardian, moving later to the Washington Post. In January, 1982, Guillermoprieto, then based in Mexico City, was one of two journalists who broke the story of the El Mozote massacre in which some 900 villagers at El Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the Salvadoran army in December, 1981. With great hardship and at great personal risk, she was smuggled by FMLN rebels to visit the site approximately a month after the massacre took place. When the story broke simultaneously in the Post and Times on January 27, 1982, it was dismissed as propaganda by the Reagan administration. Subsequently, however, the details of the massacre as first reported by Guillermoprieto and Bonner were verified, with widespread repercussions. During much of the subsequent decade, Guillermoprieto was a South America bureau chief for Newsweek. Her first book, Samba (1990), was an account of a season studying at a samba school in Rio de Janeiro. During the 1990s, she came into her own as a freelance writer, producing long, extensively researched articles on Latin American culture and politics for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, including outstanding pieces on the Colombian civil war, the Shining Path during the Internal conflict in Peru, the aftermath of the "Dirty War" in Argentina, and post-Sandinista Nicaragua. These were bundled in the book The Heart That Bleeds (1994), now considered a classical portrait of the politics and culture of Latin America during the "lost decade" (it was published in Spanish as Al pie de un volcán te escribo — Crónicas latinoamericanas in 1995). In April 1995, at the request of Gabriel García Márquez, Guillermoprieto taught the inaugural workshop at the Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, an institute for promoting journalism that was established by García Márquez in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. She has since held seven workshops for young journalists throughout the continent. That same year, Guillermoprieto also received a MacArthur Fellowship. A second anthology of articles, Looking for History, was published in 2001. Guillermoprieto also published a collection of articles in Spanish on the Mexican crisis, El año en que no fuimos felices. In 2004, Guillermoprieto published a memoir, Dancing with Cuba, which revolved on the year she spent living in Cuba in her early twenties. An excerpt of it was published in 2003 in The New Yorker. In the fall of 2008, she joined the faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago, as a Tinker Visiting Professor.
- Alma Guillermoprieto ist eine mexikanische Journalistin, die für die britische und US-amerikanische Presse umfassend über Lateinamerika berichtet. Weite Verbreitung finden ihre Artikel auch in der spanischsprachigen Welt. Sie gilt als einer der scharfsinnigsten Berichterstatter zu Lateinamerika. Ihre politischen Analysen zeichnen sich aus durch die ihnen eigene Feinfühligkeit gegenüber Geschichte und Kultur, weiter durch Guillermoprietos Fähigkeit, mittels pointierter Details Dilemmata von größerem Ausmaß zu erhellen.
- Alma Guillermoprieto, es una periodista y escritora mexicana, que vive en Estados Unidos.
- Alma Guillermoprieto is een Mexicaans journaliste. Guillermoprieto is een afstammeling van de negentiende eeuwse liberale politicus en intellectueel Guillermo Prieto. Ze is afkomstig uit Mexico-stad maar verhuisde in haar tienerjaren met haar familie naar New York City, waar zij een dansopleiding volgde. Van 1962 tot 1973 was ze professioneel danser. In de jaren '70 begon ze als verslaggever te werken voor eerst The Guardian en later de Washington Post. Guillermoprieto heeft altijd voor Amerikaanse media gewerkt, maar heeft zich wel vooral gericht op berichtgeving over Latijns-Amerika. In 1982 wist het Front Farabundo Martí voor Nationale Bevrijding (FMLN) haar samen met Raymond Bonner en Susan Meiselas haar het dorp El Mozote in El Salvador binnen te smokkelen, waar in december van het voorgaande jaar meer dan 900 dorpelingen door het leger uitgemoord waren. Bonner en Guillermoprieto wisten zo voor het eerst nieuws over dit bloedbad de wereld in te brengen. Hoewel het verhaal aanvankelijk werd afgedaan als "communistische propaganda" en zij zelfs werden teruggeroepen, is later bevestigd dat het bloedbad wel degelijk heeft plaatsgevonden. In latere jaren heeft Guillermoprieto onder andere geschreven over het Lichtend Pad in Peru, over de Colombiaanse Burgeroorlog en de Vuile Oorlog in Argentinië en heeft zij meerdere boeken over de recente geschiedenis van Latijns-Amerika op haar naam staan.
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