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...sighted in the jungle below. This time, however, the flag signified the making of history, not war. In a small clearing in the Alto de la Mesa rain forest, F.A.R.C. guerrillas and the government's representatives met to sign a momentous eleven-point cease-fire agreement. Last week Colombian President Belisario Betancur Cuartas triumphantly announced on national television his government's formal acceptance of that pact...
F.A.R.C. consists of 2,050 guerrillas backed by an additional 5,000 people in "civil defense cadres" spread mainly throughout the countryside. Armed with modern weapons, pro-Communist F.A.R.C. has proved a match for the 65,000-man Colombian army, which it has been fighting for the past 28 years. The government hopes the new cease-fire arrangement will encourage other militant factions to enter into similar agreements. Betancur, a co-founder of the Contadora group that has been trying to bring peace to Central America, also believes that the pact with F.A.R.C. demonstrates that negotiations are a workable alternative...
...celebrating the completion of another bodice-ripping yarn. Because her life is not quite the page turner that her novels are, it is the cheerful, if improbable, business of Romancing the Stone to transform her into a reasonable facsimile of one of her own adventuresses lost in the Colombian jungle. Michael Douglas plays the footloose fellow who helps her decipher the enigmas of her libido and the map that leads to the buried treasure. Their path is strewn with kidnapers, dope smugglers, sadistic policemen and a wide variety of unpleasant reptiles. But Director Zemeckis pushes them along at a pace...
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...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez. The 1982 Nobel laureate mixes imagination and fact into a suspenseful novella of honor and revenge in a Colombian town...