Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three stories dovetail in this small book. One of them involves the ordeal of Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor on a Colombian destroyer. He was swept overboard and into the Caribbean, along with seven other crew members, on Feb. 28, 1955, and endured ten days in a life raft before swimming ashore to what would become a hero's welcome. Once the cheering had died down, Velasco offered to sell his account to El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota. A young reporter named Gabriel Garcia Marquez spent some 120 hours interviewing the survivor and shaping his recollections into a first...
...onshore companions. "Our girlfriends wept," Velasco remembers, "and drank whiskey at a dollar and a half a bottle." This attention to specifics serves him well during what is to follow and gets him into trouble later on. For the Caldas does not run into a storm, as the official Colombian version of the incident will assert. The ship begins listing dangerously in high winds and water; its decks are stacked with washing machines and other appliances from the U.S. that are being illegally ferried to Colombia. As his world begins turning upside down, Velasco expects to hear the order...
...fuselage near the right wing in the moments after the explosion. On the ground, a shepherd near Argos found the bodies of three Greek Americans, all from Annapolis, Md.: Demetra Stylianopoulou, 58, her daughter Maria Klug, 25, and her eight-month-old granddaughter Demetra. A fourth body, that of Colombian-born Alberto Ospino, 39, of Stratford, Conn., was later found in a nearby field, along with the window seat in which he had been sitting...
...blast tore a 9-by-3-foot hole in the right cabin wall in front of the wing while the plane was about 15,000 miles over the ground. A Colombian-American man and three Greek-Americans--a woman, her daughter and 9-month-old grand-daughter--were sucked...
...identified the dead as Alberto Stino, a Colombian-born American; Dimitra Stylianopoulu, 52, a Greek; her daughter, Maria, 25; and her infant granddaughter. The baby's name and age were not given...