"Alma Guillermoprieto" is a Mexico/Mexican journalist who has written extensively about Latin America for the United Kingdom/British and United States/American press. Her writings have also been widely disseminated within the Spanish language/Spanish-speaking world.

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An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

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

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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?

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Apologists for the drug trade often argue that the upper classes and the political establishment in Bogota would never have opposed the drug trade if it had not enabled former punks and small-time hoods to buy property in the posh neighborhoods, and they may be right.

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

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

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I believe in reincarnation and communication with the spirits. But I also believe in the founding principles of Marxism-Leninism. Where is it written that you have to be coherent?

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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.

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