Alma Guillermoprieto

The Writer from the Dance

“The twentieth century’s great utopian experiments are exhausted, but there doesn’t seem to be an alternative vision on the horizon that people might want to sacrifice for and struggle to achieve, and the wreckage all around is great.”

American Imperialism and the End of Sovereignty

A More Pliant Chavista

President Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern.

Bodies by Joe

With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement.

A Telenovela Macondo

Netflix’s adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude has skimmed off only the melodramatic and the anecdotal parts of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece.

Ghosts of Aracataca

In a series of early short stories and novellas based on his childhood memories, Gabriel García Márquez found the style, voice, and sense of place that culminate in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Nicaragua’s Dreadful Duumvirate

Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s corrupt and paranoid dictatorship has destroyed the Sandinista movement’s proudest achievements.

Daniel Ortega and His Ex-Comrades

Not content with pillaging Nicaragua, the autocratic duumvirate of the Sandinista leader and his wife now cling to power by jailing former allies in the liberation struggle.

Confrontation in Colombia

Protesters have demanded not just the rejection of a tax bill but a whole new society.

Bolivia’s Tarnished Savior

Revisiting Evo Morales’s achievements and flaws as his party returns to power.

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.

A Reporting Life in Latin America

I’ve spent a good portion of the last twenty-five years talking to the rapists, thieves, killers, and drug traffickers of the world I come from, trying to understand.

The Yanomami’s Last Struggle

The Yanomami are not the only ones under threat from the new regime: we all are. The Amazon currently loses nearly 3,000 square miles of jungle forest every year. It is terrifying to contemplate the impact that Bolsonaro’s assault on the area will have on climate change over the next four years of his presidential term.

The Twisting Nature of Love

Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’

A Murdered Journalist

Yet another journalist has been murdered in Mexico. Because Javier Valdez was a friend of mine the details matter more to me this time.

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

The End of Fidel

He could have died at the peak of his revolution’s great social triumphs and been revered in Latin America and beyond as the new Bolivar, a new Martí. As it is, there is no way of knowing how he will be seen even ten years down the line.

No Peace in Colombia

The referendum that Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos designed to guarantee the permanence of the historic peace agreement he reached with the FARC proved its undoing. Why?