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...assistant, preferring to catalog the work himself on his Palm Pilot and Apple laptop, constant items in his luggage. He has a fully equipped studio near each of his homes, including on Paris' Left Bank and New York City's Park Avenue, and in villas in Colombia and Pietrasanta, Italy. The late Prince Rainier of Monaco gave Botero a studio in Monte Carlo, where he spends several weeks a year. And Villa del Sol, a plush beachfront resort in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, built a suite to Botero's specifications, and hosts the artist there one month each winter. This perpetual motion...
...father would walk through the streets and people would throw themselves at him," says his son, Juan Carlos Botero Zea, 44, a novelist who moved to Miami five years ago. But the artist's fame also makes him and his family prime targets for kidnapping. Botero slips into Colombia for brief visits about three times a year, traveling in an armored car with bodyguards provided by the government. In 1993, gangsters came to Botero's house in Colombia looking for him; he was not at home at the time. "When you come from a family with a prominent man like...
...these works as some of his most meaningful, and has donated them to the National Museum in Bogotá. Those paintings also draw criticism, however. "Most people said it was glorifying violence," he says. In 1995, Colombia's murky mixture of politics and gangsterism claimed a new victim: Botero's relationship with his eldest son, Fernando Botero Zea, a Harvard-educated politician who was Colombia's Defense Minister and a possible presidential contender. He was arrested on charges of accepting campaign funds for President Ernesto Samper from druglords and later convicted, spending nearly three years in jail. Devastated, Botero visited...
...received building materials every 10 weeks until the room was finished (about 70 weeks - customers were on their own for the actual building). Patrimonio Hoy attracted 42,000 new customers and is expected to turn a $1.5 million profit this year. Cemex plans to expand the program into Colombia, Venezuela, Egypt and the Philippines. Diega Chavero, 38, of Zapopan, Mexico, thought the scheme was a scam when she first heard of it, but after eight years of being unable to save enough to expand the one-room home where her family of six lived, she was willing to try anything...
...failing to consider differences at the local level, he ignores some bright spots that have recently cropped up in Latin America. Innovative municipal governance in places like Curitiba, Brazil and Bogotá, Colombia has dramatically improved quality of life, reducing crime while furnishing world-class civic services...