Alma Guillermoprieto

Alma Guillermoprieto is a Mexican journalist and author whose reporting has focused on the political and social realities of Latin America. She began her journalism career in 1978 after training as a dancer, working for The Guardian and later The Washington Post before writing extensively for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Her books include Samba, The Heart That Bleeds, Looking for History, and Dancing with Cuba, and she received the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.