The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
Alma GuillermoprietoThe left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
Alma GuillermoprietoAn essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.
Alma GuillermoprietoTalking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
Alma GuillermoprietoThe 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 brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.
Alma Guillermoprieto