Los placeres y los días
Alma Guillermoprieto

NONFICTION | 2012 | 37 pages

Alma Guillermoprieto’s extraordinary chronicles about one of the worst massacres in Latin America of the twentieth century.

Between 1981 and 1982, Alma Guillermoprieto wrote five chilling articles about the Mozote massacre, the bloodiest event that took place against the civilian population during the war in El Salvador. The Atlacatl Batallion, an elite anti-guerilla troop in the Salvadoran army, assassinated eight hundred men, women, and children with the support of the Reagan Administration. The legendary chronicles that Guillermoprieto published in The Washington Post move among charred corpses, narrow paths, and empty houses, attempting to understand and explain the violence that shook this country in the battered heart of America.

RIGHTS: spanish PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

“Masterful. The countries of Latin America now have their Orwell.”
— David Remnick