# Alma Guillermoprieto announces final reportage book, reflects on Latin American violence

Alma Guillermoprieto, 77, says her book 'Esta improbable tierra prometida' (Debate, 2026) will be her last reportage work.

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Alma Guillermoprieto said that her book 'Esta improbable tierra prometida' (This improbable promised land), published by Debate in 2026, will be her last book of reportage. [^1]

Alma Guillermoprieto stated that neither the right, the left, nor the center has solutions for problems like the growth of AI in Latin America. [^2]

Alma Guillermoprieto explained that many of her texts about violence are an effort to understand what she finds astonishing and inexplicable. [^3]

The introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's career as a reporter begins with the 1988 massacre in Segovia, Antioquia, the first and largest of the paramilitary massacres that occurred over the following quarter century, which happened while she lived in Bogotá. [^4]

Guillermoprieto described Latin America as an absolutely unpredictable region, noting that it surprises her every day despite her nearly 50 years of writing about it. [^5]

She condemned the Trump administration's drone strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, describing them as extrajudicial executions rather than legitimate bombings. [^6]

The journalist argued that the war on drugs and organized crime have brought an epidemic of violence to Latin America just as the region was consolidating its institutions. [^7]

Alma Guillermoprieto conceded that reporting requires physical energy that runs out over time. [^8]

## What this stands on

1. Alma Guillermoprieto said that her book 'Esta improbable tierra prometida' (This improbable promised land), published by Debate in 2026, will be her last book of reportage. (elpais.com, News)
2. Alma Guillermoprieto stated that neither the right, the left, nor the center has solutions for problems like the growth of AI in Latin America. (BBC News Mundo, News)
3. Alma Guillermoprieto explained that many of her texts about violence are an effort to understand what she finds astonishing and inexplicable. (elpais.com, News)
4. The introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's career as a reporter begins with the 1988 massacre in Segovia, Antioquia, the first and largest of the paramilitary massacres that occurred over the following quarter century, which happened while she lived in Bogotá. (elpais.com, News)
5. Guillermoprieto described Latin America as an absolutely unpredictable region, noting that it surprises her every day despite her nearly 50 years of writing about it. (BBC News Mundo, News)
6. She condemned the Trump administration's drone strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, describing them as extrajudicial executions rather than legitimate bombings. (BBC News Mundo, News)
7. The journalist argued that the war on drugs and organized crime have brought an epidemic of violence to Latin America just as the region was consolidating its institutions. (BBC News Mundo, News)
8. Alma Guillermoprieto conceded that reporting requires physical energy that runs out over time. (elpais.com, News)

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