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Critics, in a sniveling attempt to place Donoso in a genre, have often compared him to Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquees. Their similarities--in subject matter and setting, for example--stem only from the aspects of Spanish colonial heritage common to Chile and Colombia The mixing of several cultures gives these writer a wider range of plausible stories, as well as a greater sense of freedom to experiment with the unlikely. But unlike Marquez, Donoso derives much of his energy from the extreme self-consciousness of his art Each time Donoso turns from one event to another, he explains that...
...army officer. Law learned Spanish as a child while living in Mexico and Colombia. Rodriguez said that this fluency will be an asset when dealing with the Hispanic community...
...investigation has underscored the concern of many Bahamians about what the flourishing drug trade has done to their 700-island archipelago. For years the Bahamas have been a haven for arms and liquor smuggling. Then in the 1970s the transshipment of marijuana and cocaine from Colombia and other South American countries to the U.S. became a thriving business. Some Bahamians amassed fortunes by providing landing strips, storage depots and distribution channels to drug traffickers. Inevitably, violence followed, and by the early 1980s drug abuse among local residents had become a serious problem...
...with eight members of the bipartisan presidential commission he heads, was in Mexico and Venezuela gathering fact and opinion for the report that is scheduled to go to the President in early January. U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met with the President-elect of Venezuela and the President of Colombia...
...Kissinger commission traveled to Mexico City and Caracas to confer with leaders of the Contadora process, the regional peace-seeking effort undertaken by Mexico, Venezuela, Panama and Colombia. The group has proposed a draft treaty that would try to stop arms shipments into and between Central American countries, get rid of foreign military advisers and promote democracy. Those goals, Kissinger said in Mexico City, "seem to be consistent with U.S. objectives, or what should be U.S. objectives." Rebellions that arise indigenously, he said, "should not be the concern of the U.S." but should be "worked out by the people concerned...