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...For Isaías Vásquez Sánchez, employed for 43 years on Mexican railways, “the train will bring back glory”....
...Javier Mallarino is a cartoonist who lampoons Columbia’s great and not-so-good in his long-running strip for a liberal newspaper. In 2010, when the story opens, he is at the zenith of his career....
...“Food is a global market,” Mr Vasquez said. “Where does this [self-sufficiency] leave countries that cannot build agricultural capacity?”...
...Anne McLean, who translated Javier Cercas’s Soldiers of Salamis, has done a stupendous job of rendering Vásquez’s intricate style into beautifully fluid English....
...Gaddi Vasquez, the US ambassador to the FAO in Rome, says that to increase crop yields, “one of the most promising ways is through GM”....
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