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Alma Guillermoprieto
Mexican
Journalist
Born:
May 27
,
1949
Anywhere
Day
Language
Looking
Will
You
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I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
Alma Guillermoprieto
News
Daily
History
You
Long
Power
Looking
Revolution
Think
Extremely
Havana
Seems
Had
Part
Like
Cuban
Been
Years
Childhood
Realized
Traveled
Now
Daily News
Started
And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
Alma Guillermoprieto
Work
You
Will
States
Carpentry
Border
Restaurant
Restaurants
Pretty
Cross
Factories
Course
Go
Mexican
Shops
Dishes
Anywhere
Us
Much
Washed
Gardens
United
Homes
United States
Millions
Chances
I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.
Alma Guillermoprieto
Good
Try
Care
Way
About
Fact
Write
Know
Also
Efficient
Reporter
Intensely
Places
Them
Professional
The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
Alma Guillermoprieto
Day
Construction
Will
Job
Somebody
City
Most
Mexico
Mexico City
Get
Paid
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
Alma Guillermoprieto
Memory
Writing
Long
Looking
Looking Back
Before
Back
Saw
One Of The Things
About
Observant
Well
Course
Became
Discovered
Person
Reporter
Closely
Things
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
Alma Guillermoprieto
Day
Say
One Day
Would
California
Left
Mexicans
Wonder
Happen
Next
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