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Issued by: Laura Hunt 414-229-6447 llhunt@uwm.edu Date: March 19, 2003

National Latino Affairs Reporter Guillermoprieto at UWM April 10-11

MILWAUKEE - Mexican-born journalist Alma Guillermoprieto, who has written about Latin America for The Washington Post and The New Yorker magazine, will speak on "Colombia: The Unbroken War," on Thursday, April 10, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).

Guillermoprieto's lecture, part of the UWM Union's Distinguished Lecture Series, begins at 8 p.m. in the second-floor Wisconsin Room at the Union, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.

Writing about Latin America for the past 20 years, Guillermoprieto is the author of three books - "Samba," "The Heart That Bleeds" and "Looking for History: Dispatches From Latin America."

As a frequent contributor to both The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and many other national periodicals, Guillermoprieto has written about the connection between politics and garbage in Mexico, the bonds that link Brazilians to the heroes of their telenovelas, and the work of Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, among a multitude of other topics.

She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995 and won the 2000 George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.

Sponsors for this event include the UWM Center for 21st Century Studies, Union Programming, Union Sociocultural Programming and the UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).

Ticket prices: $5 campus community and $8 general public, both in advance and at the door. Advance tickets are available at the UWM Bookstore. Call 414-229-4201 for information.

On Friday, April 11, Guillermoprieto will participate in a roundtable discussion with three UWM faculty members as part of the UWM Center for International Education's conference, "Rethinking Global Security."

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