News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was approached by his friends Maruja Pachón de Villamizar and Alberto Villamizar in 1993 to write a book about the ordeal surrounding Maruja's abduction. García Márquez recalls that he was working on the first draft when he realized "it was impossible to separate her kidnapping from nine other abductions that occurred at the same time in Colombia." García Márquez decided to...

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News of a Kidnapping

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News of a Kidnapping, written by Mr. Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez is an extraordinary book that exposes the kidnappings of journalists in Colombia by the Extraditables; a group organized by drug kin... Read more

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