If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Y…

- Alma Guillermoprieto

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a br…

- Alma Guillermoprieto

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

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 intensel…

- Alma Guillermoprieto

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

- Alma Guillermoprieto

You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consisten…

- Alma Guillermoprieto