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New York Public Library - Cullman Center presents
The Romance Of It All: Three Aspects Of Latin America, Part One
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Revisiting the El Mozote Massacre: How the Dead are Forgotten, and Survive
Presented as The Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in association with Harvard University Press
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
Presented as The Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in association with Harvard University Press. In the first of three talks, Guillermoprieto revisits the 1981 massacre in El Mozote, El Salvador, which was indirectly sponsored (and subsequently denied) by the Reagan Administration. Through the story of Rufina Amaya, the last survivor of the massacre, Guillermoprieto explores the troubling intersections of government, the media, human rights, and the fickle nature of United States public interest in Latin America.
Alma Guillermoprieto is an award-winning journalist who has written about Latin America for more than twenty years. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, Guillermoprieto covered the insurrection against Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua for the Guardian and broke the story of the massacre at El Mozote for the Washington Post. She is the author of four books: Samba, an account of the year she spent with the impoverished carnival-makers of Brazil that was nominated for the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award; The Heart That Bleeds; and Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America. Her latest book is Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution. Her work has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, a George Polk Award, and a Nieman Fellowship (Harvard University), among other awards, and she is a co-founder of the Fundacion Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano/ New Journalism Foundation, in Colombia. |
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