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Writers

Alma Guillermoprieto

Crime

A Hundred Women

Why a decades-long string of murders near the Mexican border has gone unsolved.

Alma Guillermoprieto The New Yorker Sep 2003 30min Permalink

Religion

Francis’s Holy War

The surprising papacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Alma Guillermoprieto Matter Jun 2014 25min Permalink

Crime World

In the New Gangland of El Salvador

How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.

Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2011 15min Permalink

Crime World

The Murderers of Mexico

The narcocorrido-immortalized Pacific coast traditionalists, the kidnap-crazed Gulf coast Zetas, and massacres that no longer seem tied to a discernible purpose; inside the ruins of the Mexican-American border.

Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review of Books Oct 2010 20min Permalink