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.

“No writer captures the joy and the pain of life in Latin America like Alma Guillermoprieto. This collection goes far beyond the usual headlines to explore the deeper currents shaping the human experiences of everyone who lives in our hemisphere.” - Patrick Iber, author of Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America "For decades now, Alma Guillermoprieto has been an indispensable guide to a region that US opinion makers stubbornly continue to ignore. The Years of Blood is Guillermoprieto at her most intense and nuanced, offering humane portraits set in turbulent landscapes, some of ordinary people trying to survive, others of people with extraordinary power who believe they control the turbulence. An indispensable window into a region that, even as it remains itself, is changing with breakneck speed." - Greg Grandin, author of The End of the Myth "Alma Guillermoprieto’s collection of feature articles reporting from on the ground in a key period of Latin America’s history will stand the test of time as a vivid ethnographic snapshot of the impact of change on the real people behind academic aggregation." - Gavin O'Toole Latin American Review of Books

• Introduction. A Reporting Life in Latin America  1Part I. South America1. Bolivia’s Tarnished Savior  112. In the Wrestling Rings of Bolivia  213. Don’t Cry for me, Venezuela  274. Confrontation in Colombia  415. Colombia’s Healing Begins  516. Confessions of a Killer  617. Claudia Andujar: Witness to Yanomami’s Last Struggle  73Part II. Central America8. Nicaragua’s Dreadful Duumvirate  839. Death Comes for the Archbishop  9510. In the New Gangland of El Salvador  103Part III. Mexico11. “The Morning Quickie”  11712. The Mission of Father Maciel  13113. Troubled Spirits  13914. Risking Life for Truth  14915. A Voice against the Darkness  15716. Making the Dogs Dance  16117. A Lost World on the Map  16718. The High Art of the Tamale  17919. The Twisting Nature of Love: Alfonso CuarÓn’s Roma  18720. Forty-Three Students Went Missing: What Really Happened to Them?  213Acknowledgments  239

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.

“No writer captures the joy and the pain of life in Latin America like Alma Guillermoprieto. This collection goes far beyond the usual headlines to explore the deeper currents shaping the human experiences of everyone who lives in our hemisphere.” - Patrick Iber, author of Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America "For decades now, Alma Guillermoprieto has been an indispensable guide to a region that US opinion makers stubbornly continue to ignore. The Years of Blood is Guillermoprieto at her most intense and nuanced, offering humane portraits set in turbulent landscapes, some of ordinary people trying to survive, others of people with extraordinary power who believe they control the turbulence. An indispensable window into a region that, even as it remains itself, is changing with breakneck speed." - Greg Grandin, author of The End of the Myth "Alma Guillermoprieto’s collection of feature articles reporting from on the ground in a key period of Latin America’s history will stand the test of time as a vivid ethnographic snapshot of the impact of change on the real people behind academic aggregation." - Gavin O'Toole Latin American Review of Books

• Introduction. A Reporting Life in Latin America  1Part I. South America1. Bolivia’s Tarnished Savior  112. In the Wrestling Rings of Bolivia  213. Don’t Cry for me, Venezuela  274. Confrontation in Colombia  415. Colombia’s Healing Begins  516. Confessions of a Killer  617. Claudia Andujar: Witness to Yanomami’s Last Struggle  73Part II. Central America8. Nicaragua’s Dreadful Duumvirate  839. Death Comes for the Archbishop  9510. In the New Gangland of El Salvador  103Part III. Mexico11. “The Morning Quickie”  11712. The Mission of Father Maciel  13113. Troubled Spirits  13914. Risking Life for Truth  14915. A Voice against the Darkness  15716. Making the Dogs Dance  16117. A Lost World on the Map  16718. The High Art of the Tamale  17919. The Twisting Nature of Love: Alfonso CuarÓn’s Roma  18720. Forty-Three Students Went Missing: What Really Happened to Them?  213Acknowledgments  239