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...junta's apparent willingness to support a constitutional government, some of its members harbor lingering reservations. The junta says it seeks a "dialogue" with Roldós, and wants him to "clarify his political philosophy" before he takes office in August. The idea, explains Rear Admiral Victor Hugo Garcés, the Interior Minister, is to help the new President "not to go to any extremes." If the dialogue does not satisfy the generals, Ecuador's return to democracy could prove turbulent...
...Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel García Márquez...
...body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...
Much of the novel is set in a fictitious Central American republic, a territory of the mind that has lately received many tourists. Joan Didion exercised her talents there in A Book of Common Prayer. García 3's The Autumn of the Patriarch also took place in such a Central American dreamscape. Niña Huanca strikes similar social and political chords, but Gonzalez-Aller also seeks the high notes of myth and the mysteries of human motives...
...Like García Marquez's bestselling One Hundred Years of Solitude, it is a densely populated, myth-ridden antiepic...