Word: garcias
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...themselves with Magic Johnson; with shaved heads or ruptured tendons. Barcelona has long been famous as a city of artists and laborers, a "city of marvels" where discipline and flight converge. Now, to the famous roll call of its industrious dreamers -- Casals and Picasso, Miro and Lorca, Gaudi and Garcia Marquez -- can be added some new names: Joyner-Kersee and Jordan, Scherbo and Laumann. Besides, Barcelona now has something to remember Thimbu by, and even in television-less Thimbu there is a rumor of a place called Barcelona...
What is missing from the book is Fidel. As in real life, he pulls the strings offstage, but he is rarely glimpsed up close. He appears for gloomy late-night ruminations with author Gabriel Garcia Marquez at a protocol house outside Havana and in a visit with children ages 6 to 14 where he drones on for three hours about the dialectics of Che. In the end, Oppenheimer doesn't make a convincing argument that Fidel is in his "final hour." His reporting, in fact, illustrates precisely how Castro remains in power: through a combination of personality, national pride...
...country's literature. Four years later, The Death of Artemio Cruz, a Faulknerian tour de force narrated by a man during the final hours of his life, propelled Fuentes into the front ranks of "el Boom," the globally acclaimed wave of Latin American authors that included Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa...
...government implemented a sweeping agrarian reform which distributed all the land from the wealthy landlords to the poor peasants. Alan Garcia, president from 1985-90, served Peru under the banners of "anti-imperialism" and "social justice" nationalizing private banks and calling for "war on the business class the serves imperialist purposes." I think that these can hardly be called "governments of, for and by the rich white people...
STAFF WRITER: Guy Garcia...