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The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now

by Alma Guillermoprieto · 1994

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An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.

Subject
historypoliticstraveleconomics
Themes
journalistspoliticsdiversity
Setting
20th centuryLatin AmericaMexico
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 368 pages
Form
essays

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