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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America.(Review) (book review)

American Prospect, The,  June, 2001  by DUBOSE, LOUIS

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Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America, by Alma Guillermoprieto.

Pantheon Books, 303 pages, $25.00.

Alma Guillermoprieto had waited four days for an interview with Subcommandante Marcos. Still, she was surprised when the Mexican guerrilla leader showed up--in the middle of the night at her bedside, shining a flashlight in her face. "He is good at entrances" she, writes in Looking for History, her collection of reportorial essays about Latin America. She describes Marcos as "more articulate, cosmopolitan, humorous and coquettishly manipulative ...

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