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ABOUT THE AUTHOR A native of San Antonio, Texas, Joseph Harmes moved to Mexico City shortly after graduating from Trinity University. Over the years (for Time, Newsweek, People and other publications) he interviewed Mexican and Central American presidents and covered the country’s economic collapses, the World Cup and the 1985 earthquake. When tour guides at the museum in Dolores Hidalgo brag that then-Vice President George H.W. Bush visited on September 15, 1981, Harmes likes to say, "I know, I was with him." Reporting assignments took him to the Central American and Balkan civil wars and to the home of Elian González in Cuba. After Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize, Harmes was the only American journalist invited to his private fiesta. The author appeared as himself in the books "Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen and the War America Can’t Win," "Salvador" and "The Border." Prior to moving to San Miguel de Allende in 2002, Harmes served as Miami Bureau Chief for People magazine. |
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