Alma Guillermoprieto

I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia,…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Somebody will come from Village X and then they'll send for the brother and then they'll send for the sister and then…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking,…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole…

— Alma Guillermoprieto