The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next? — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
