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...An estimated nine people are believed to be holed up in the Mexican residence in La Paz, among them a former aide to Mr Morales, Juan Ramón Quintana, who Bolivia said must face charges of sedition and terrorism...
...The Shape of the Ruins , by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne MacLean, Maclehose Press, RRP£20/Riverhead, RRP$27 In this gripping novel by one of Colombia’s finest authors, the past weighs heavily...
...1 — Tulum, Mexico Judge by the magazine spreads or the Instagram feeds of hipster travel influencers and you’d be forgiven for thinking that this municipality in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo is all...
...“[The Quintana affair] is a very small drop, but if there are enough drops, at some point the cup will overflow,” said Juan Germano, a pollster. “The government has to take care.”...
...Roo — has “obviously” started to hurt investment, said Juan Pablo Castañón, head of the business lobby CCE....
...I’ll Sell You a Dog, by Juan Pablo Villalobos, translated by Rosalind Harvey, And Other Stories, RRP£10/$25.95 In a rundown old people’s home in Mexico City, a retired taco salesman, failed painter and...
...Half an hour by car from Mérida, the state capital, Chablé is aspiring to raise levels of luxury to a new high in Yucatán state, which has tended to play second fiddle to neighbouring Quintana Roo, with...
...The All Saints’ Day Lovers, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 The latest offering by Colombia’s Impac Prize-winning author is a collection of short stories mostly...
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...President Juan Manuel Santos, descendant of presidents, was elected in 2010....
...An outspoken critic of the various military-supported governments that ruled the South American country following the 1955 coup against populist president Juan Perón, Walsh is perhaps best known for his...
...While Juan Ramón Quintana, Morales’s cabinet chief, reportedly told a local radio station that, “we are not part of any arbitration body....
...The Sound of Things Falling, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99, 320 pages The drug-related violence that shook Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s has become fertile...
...… By Night the Mountain Burns, by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, translated by Jethro Soutar, And Other Stories, RRP£10/$15.95 The volcanic island of Annobón, off the west African coast, provides the setting...
...Juan Ramón Quintana, minister for the presidency, said the government would not be moved....
...Down the Rabbit Hole, the debut novel by Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos, performs an unexpected trick....
...Quesadillas , by Juan Pablo Villalobos translated by Rosalind Harvey, And Other Stories, RRP£10/FSG Originals, RRP$13 In a bold follow-up to Down the Rabbit Hole , Mexico’s Villalobos tells the riotous...
...It was, says Colombian novelist and Barcelona resident Juan Gabriel Vásquez, “a place where Latin American literature was well received and well read, and which at the time was much more open, more cosmopolitan...
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana FT fiction reviewer ………………………………………….....
...The Informers By Juan Gabriel VázquezTranslated by Anne McLean Bloomsbury £16.99, 352 pages After his father’s death, a Colombian journalist is tasked with piecing together the life of a man he knew little...
...Ramon Quintana....
...Fiction Compiled by Ángel Gurría-Quintana The Pregnant Widow, by Martin Amis, Jonathan Cape RRP£18.99 Hailed as a return to form, Amis’s 12th novel recaptures the melancholy humour of The Rachel Papers...
...On Thursday, Juan Ramón Quintana, minister of the president, said the country was on the brink of a crisis....
...The dust jacket for The Informers tells us that its author, the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez, is a member of Bogotá 39 – a group of 39 Latin American authors aged 39 or under and considered the most promising...
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