Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imps of literary happenstance could not have done better than News of a Kidnapping (Knopf; 291 pages; $25). It brings together the world's two best-known Colombians, symbolically locked in a struggle for their nation's soul. The first is the book's author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel prizewinner and one of the greatest living storytellers. The other is the late Pablo Escobar, once head of the Medellin drug cartel and a terrorist responsible for hundreds of violent deaths...
These two men, who achieved international fame and fortune peddling their respective though vastly different habit-forming products, seem to have been destined for a literary rendezvous. But where? Escobar and his remorseless crew are too malignant for Garcia Marquez's familiar magic realism. Fortunately, the author learned the writer's trade in journalism, where the best editorial advice still comes from Hamlet's mother: "More matter, with less...
...almost hear Garcia Marquez asking, Who? What? Where? When? and Why? on every minutely detailed page of this factual account of political kidnappings orchestrated by Escobar. The writer's respondents are mainly the survivors of a group of prominent residents of Bogota whom the drug lord held hostage during 1990 and 1991. Then the target of a relentless manhunt, he used the captives as bargaining chips. The negotiations eventually led to releases and a surrender agreement with a no-extradition clause and a luxurious protective-custody package for Escobar, his family and his business associates...
...magazine's chief goals will be to solicit more viewpoints next year, editors said. Garcia said the current issue's focus is mostly Mexican-American, since the magazine grew out of RAZA, a Mexican-American organization...
...When we say it is 'our voice' we are hoping that not only Latinos submit pieces," Garcia added. He said the magazine invites "Anybody who has ever written a poem or would like to explore their own personal perspective" to write...