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...crew members, on Feb. 28, 1955, and endured ten days in a life raft before swimming ashore to what would become a hero's welcome. Once the cheering had died down, Velasco offered to sell his account to El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota. A young reporter named Gabriel Garcia Marquez spent some 120 hours interviewing the survivor and shaping his recollections into a first-person narrative. When this appeared in print, serialized in 14 installments, the paper's circulation nearly doubled, and Colombia's military dictatorship grew embarrassed by some of the details, and then angry. Soon the sailor...
These intertwined circumstances make The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor something more than another raid on a successful author's juvenilia. For Garcia Marquez, who would become world famous through his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, this early effort in journalism provided a lesson in the bizarre effects that telling a tale can have on characters and author alike. His attempt to reconstruct Velasco's experiences as factually as possible assumed a life of its own; the sailor who braved exposure and sharks fell afoul of the words of his story. And words, paradoxically, rescued Velasco's adventure from...
...AMOR EN LOS TIEMPOS DE COLERA, by Columbian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, sold by Schoenhof's Foreign Books...
Such problems have eroded popular confidence in the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), essentially a monopoly political group that changes its near absolutist leader every six years. The P.R.I. has dominated Mexico for more than half a century. During that time, says Manuel Garcia y Griego, a historian at the prestigious Colegio de Mexico, "economic growth has been the central pillar of the functioning of the system." Bruce Bagley, a Washington-based Latin American expert at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, warns that "if oil prices hold below $20 per bbl., it will be a disaster...
...peace prize, which she shared with Mexican diplomat Alfonso Garcia Robles in 1982, culminated three decades of work to contain the threat of nuclear weapons...