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THE NEW YORK TIMES |
NO BORDERS
A Journalist's Search for Home.
By Jorge Ramos.
Rayo/HarperCollins, $24.95.
Jorge Ramos left his native Mexico City in 1983, after one of his reports for a television
station was censored. He arrived in Los Angeles and soon landed a job with Univision, the
most watched Spanish-language station in the United States. ''No Borders'' blends personal
memoir, political commentary and greatest-hits selections from Ramos's war coverage - El
Salvador, Persian Gulf, Kosovo - and his interviews with Latin American leaders like the
Colombian president, Ernesto Samper, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and Nicaragua's Daniel
Ortega. The most successful portions of the book, well translated from the Spanish by
Patricia J. Duncan, are the personal narrative and reportorial reminiscences. After almost
20 years living in the United States yet retaining his Mexican passport, Ramos remains
unsure of which country he belongs to most. ''I do not feel at home. Never. Anywhere.''
SHANNON BRADY MARIN
The New York Times/Sunday Book Review March 16, 2003 |
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