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...During their first dance, in the Colombian town of Sucre, 13-year-old Mercedes Barcha told Gabriel García Márquez: “My papa says that the prince who will marry me hasn’t been born yet.”...
...“This museum is about the image of the president,” says the curator, Mercedes Bernabé, but she adds that the focus on Mr Morales is now slowly being phased out....
...We pull off at the gates of Estancia Mercedes, the siblings’ 13,000-hectare ranch....
...Nicaragua timeline 1937 Anastasio Somoza García elected president....
...A respected poet and novelist, he was influenced by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. His dark lyrics earned him the nickname ‘the high priest of pathos’....
...Former President Alan García, who ran again on Sunday, once slammed him for not having “a single gram of Peruvian blood. He has Polish, Jewish, French, but Peruvian zero”....
...There is even talk of a “boom” in contemporary Colombian art — a notion that María Mercedes González, director of Medellín’s Museum of Modern Art (MAMM), dismisses....
...That said, although the designer Jacques Garcia’s fabulously opulent interiors may look authentically antique, only the carved marble chimney pieces are original....
...García Márquez was married to Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, who now survive him. He said in 1985 that he wrote “so that my friends will love me more”....
...“The most important thing right now is to find all her contacts,” said Mercedes Vinuesa, Spain’s director-general for public health....
...He is survived by his wife Mercedes, and two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo....
...Over drinks and dinner, he came across as the kind of character Gabriel García Márquez would have conjured up if the master of magic realism had been living closer to Bakersfield than Bogotá....
...Fernando Garcia Fontes, vice-president of human resources....
...Renault is also studying using Mercedes-Benz’s modules for future offerings of “upper-range” cars....
...Eduardo Garcia, founder of the business website Sentido Común, says that buying struggling companies in hard times defines Mr Slim’s business style....
...Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former investment banker who was prime minister and finance minister of Peru during Mr Toledo’s administration, is running in fifth place with 4 per cent, ahead of Mercedes Aráoz...
...Independent Mercedes Araoz, former finance minister, has also joined the fray with the endorsement of the ruling Apra coalition, intensifying what is expected to be a fierce battle for the centre ground....
...Mercedes Aráoz, an independent who was appointed finance minister nine months ago, has said she is considering a run at the presidency next April....
..., minister for foreign affairs, Mercedes Araoz, minister for trade and tourism, and Antero Flores-Araoz, minister for defence....
...Several key ministers are likely to stay in the new cabinet, including José García Belaunde, the foreign minister, and Mercedes Araoz, the trade minister....
...Karlsson’s two wins of the year – at the recent Mercedes Benz Championship in Germany and the Dunhill Links at St Andrews – do not carry anywhere near the same level of kudos....
...The crime of Fago also seems to echo a real-life murder narrated by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Chronicle of a Death Foretold....
...A recent survey of incoming buyers revealed that the most common name is Nguyen, which is Vietnamese, followed by Kim, Lee, Tran and Garcia....
...*Golf's Sergio Garcia clinched his first European Tour title of the season with a one-shot victory in the European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland....
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