"Before getting into the car she looked over her shoulder to make sure no one was stalking her. It was five past seven in the evening in Bogotá. It had gotten dark an hour earlier, the National Park was poorly lit and the leafless trees had a ghostly profile against the turbid...
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News of a Kidnapping (2015)
"Before getting into the car she looked over her shoulder to make sure no one was stalking her. It was five past seven in the evening in Bogotá. It had gotten dark an hour earlier, the National Park was poorly lit and the leafless trees had a ghostly profile against the turbid and sad sky, but there was nothing to fear in sight." News of a Kidnapping brought Gabriel García Márquez's pen back to journalism, where he has also received unanimous recognition, and to the realm of current political controversy. The kidnappings in 1990 of Maruja Pachón and other journalists and collaborators at the hands of the cartel commanded by the legendary drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, recounted here by all those involved, constituted the most serious national crisis in a country already convulsed by guerrilla violence. The talent for narrating this ordeal has made these pages imperishable. Gabriel García Márquez's great return to journalism |
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