Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, are useful in the war on drugs to pinpoint airstrips, processing plants and storage areas operated by narcotics cartels in Colombia. Once the drug operations are located, intelligence teams intercept radio messages from the installations and send agents in to scout the area on the ground. When the Colombian military acted on one such U.S. tip, it moved in and seized 26 people, six planes and 20 tons of cocaine...
...meatloaf with criss-crossing grill marks on it to make it look like a steak. Unfortunately for United, this seasoned veteran of airplane food was not fooled; I demanded a real steak, and asked the captain to turn the plane around just like in that Colombian coffee commercial. For some reason, they thought that was funny...
Others convey all the enchanting density of Garcia Marquez's fiction at its best. In The Saint, a man from the Colombian Andes takes the miraculously preserved body of his daughter, dead at age seven and exhumed 11 years later to make way for a dam, to Rome to seek her canonization by the church. When the story ends, 22 years later, he is still waiting, another outsider absorbed into the rhythms of the Eternal City...
Next comes "The Saint," a story about Margarito Duarte, a Colombian man whose dead daughter's body has miraculously not decayed and who travels to Rome to have her canonized. He spends twenty-two years on his quest, lugging his daughter's corpse around in a cello case, surviving a succession of Popes and battling the insurmountable Vatican bureaucracy. Garcia Marquez's prose renders this grotesque premise poignant. Margarito is the (Latin) American innocent abroad, encountering a world he knows nothing about and which he is not prepared to confront...
...Caribbean writer. The writer has remodeled certain parts of the castle, and thus metaphorically left his mark on Europe, but there are deeper and more ancient powers in the castle that assert themselves in the swift and brutal denouement. In "The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow," a Colombian woman goes into a Parisian hospital to be treated for a minor cut and is never seen again. The protagonist of "I Only Came to Use the Phone" ends up in a Kafkaesque insane asylum. The two children in "Light is Like Water" drown in a current of electric light...