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...company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá; conducts a long-distance collaboration with Gabriel Garcia Márquez on a cycle of songs based on some of the Nobel prizewinner's early stories; and, with his pistol-hot band, Sets del Solar (Six from the Tenement), has been galvanizing a concert tour that has ricocheted from Berkeley, Calif., to the Cannes Film Festival...
...most infamous Salvadoran death squad triggermen were convicted of murder. After a nonstop 20-hour trial, a jury of Salvadoran civilians found five former national guardsmen guilty of killing four American women in 1980. Three of the victims were Roman Catholic nuns. The provincial courtroom had a musky, Gabriel Garcia Márquez air. Through swinging saloon doors came and went a family selling sandwiches and coffee to spectators. A group of onlookers stood tiptoe on a junked car just outside-until the rotted car roof gave way. The crowd laughed; when the verdict came...
...group was small: a secret society of seven artists, led by three men-Hunt, Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti-and followed, eventually, by a small trail of satellite painters. And it was self-consciously "revolutionary": the year was 1848, and a secret society of dangerous young subversives had become one of the special phantoms of the English mind. The P.R.B. wanted to reform English art, to drag it from the swamp of maudlin genre and low-grade history painting. They believed, with the ardent simplicity of young minds, that this decay had set in three centuries before, with Raphael. Hence...
...Santiago Retailers Association joined the protest, most stores closed their doors. At nightfall, the streets of Santiago were filled with the sound of banging pots and pans as Chileans leaned out their windows, just technically in compliance with the curfew laws designed to keep them off the streets. Said Gabriel Valdes, president of the Democratic Alliance, a coalition that includes political parties from the Republican right to the Socialists: "The people have demanded, as never before, that Pinochet and his regime must leave the government once...
Further, the article's implication that writers such as Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez should not be read because of their political beliefs smacks of the kind of censorship that has gained unfortunate popularity around the country. People should ignored Marquez no less than they should avoid the poetry of Ezra Pound, a Nazi sympathizer...