Alma Guillermoprieto has, for many decades, been among the most respected journalists covering Latin America in the English language — a canny observer of the region’s often tumultuous politics and a gifted chronicler of its vibrant life.

Earlier this year, Guillermoprieto published what she called, due to the “realities of age,” her closing collection: twenty stories spanning Latin America in the twenty-first century titled The Years of Blood.

The stories, which cover topics ranging from the political demise of Evo Morales to the disappeared students of Ayotzinapa to the acclaimed Mexico City–set film Roma and beyond, are preceded by an introduction in which Guillermoprieto wonders how so many of the movements she covered could have ended in “disillusion and broken futures” and expresses her hope that, “in the not-too-distant future a much younger writer will be able to report and write the stories of how peace was consolidated throughout these lands.”