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July 9, 2011

Alma Guillermoprieto is author of Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America.

Headline stories do not exist in a vacuum. Events in Latin America from guerilla war to economic crises have long histories. Alma Guillermoprieto explains the stories behind the stories that we read about in the newspapers.

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