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Longreads Member Exclusive: A Visit to Havana
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to receive this and other weekly exclusives.) This week, we're proud to feature a Member Exclusive from
Alma Guillermoprieto
and
The New York Review of Books
. Born in Mexico City, Guillermoprieto has covered Latin America for
NYRB
since 1994, and she has also written for
The New Yorker
,
The Guardian
and the
Washington Post
. Her books include
Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution
and
Looking for History:
Dispatches from Latin America
, which includes the below story, "A Visit to Havana," about her return to Cuba for Pope John Paul II's arrival in 1998.
AUTHOR:
Alma Guillermoprieto
SOURCE:
New York Review of Books
PUBLISHED:
March 26, 1998
LENGTH:
35 minutes (8874 words)
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