A review by evamadera1
The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto

informative medium-paced

4.25

I learned quite a lot from this book which always makes for an enjoyable read. The structure of the book, a series of long-form news stories, aided in making the book digestible and captivating for the reader. I also found the current events nature of the essays a fascinating take on what now makes up recent history, since this book was published in the mid-1990s.
I just wish, however, that Guillermoprieto had included another essay, or at least more pages, about the fascinating interplay between the African religions, Catholicism, and the "new" Protestant religions in Brazil. I absolutely loved that chapter.