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...The story inspired Gabriel García Márquez to write his novel Of Love and Other Demons....
...“There are some things you cannot spin,” says Gabriel Guerra Castellanos, a former government spokesman and diplomat, now running a consultancy whose clients include the Mexican federal attorney-general’...
...In May, Ricardo Calderón, Semana’s investigations editor, escaped an apparent assassination attempt near Bogotá. And the government has warned of other plots....
...But in a twist worthy of a Gabriel García Márquez novel, officials admitted that the body thought to belong to Heriberto Lazcano, suspected head of the notorious Zetas drug cartel, was stolen early on Monday...
...Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s centre-right president, wrote on his account: “I deeply lament the death of our beloved and admired Carlos Fuentes, a universal Mexican writer.”...
...These failures left a gargantuan task for Mr Calderón, who succeeded Mr Fox after winning the 2006 presidential elections with a wafer-thin margin. Mr Calderón has indeed achieved several reforms....
...“Whoever is interested in this opportunity will find support,” says Gabriel Székely, chief of staff of Mexico’s Tourism Ministry, which is spearheading the effort....
...With the US-led clampdown on Caribbean smuggling routes in the 1980s, and a concerted effort by President Felipe Calderón of Mexico to disrupt the cartels’ routes in his country, there is increasing evidence...
...“Colombia’s vice-president, Francisco Santos Calderón, asked us to take a look at Cartagena,” says Steindorff. “Mike Newell and I went down, and we loved it....
...“Politically, this is a very astute move,” said José Mirtenbaum of Gabriel Rene Moreno university in Santa Cruz....
...“It embodied the idea of American living, the image of progress, development and modernity,” says Carola Garcia Calderon, an advertising expert at Mexico’s National Autonomous University....
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