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In 1990, Pablo Escobar and the Medellin drug cartel held ten hostages in an attempt to force the Colombian government to meet their demands. Marquez interviewed the hostages, read their diaries, and reconstructed their experiences with immense insight and detail.

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In a departure from his Nobel prize-winning fiction, García Márquez examines the November 7, 1990, abduction of well-known Colombian journalist Maruja Pachón and her sister-in-law by the "Extraditables," drug traffickers belonging to the Medellín Cartel. Among others kidnapped were the daughter of an ex-president of Colombia and the son of the owner of El Tiempo, Colombia's most important newspaper. The kidnappings were meant to force the government to take a stand against the extradition of drug traffickers to the United States. What ensues is a passionate account of the harrowing experiences suffered by the victims and the negotiations undertaken by Pachón's husband, Alberto Villamizar. A moving, dramatic account on par with the author's best works; recommended for public libraries.‘Jorge Gonzalez (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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An account of the Escobar gang's 1993 kidnapping of 11 people, including Maruja Pichon de Villamizar, a Colombian journalist.

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Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. After studying law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, he became a journalist. In 1965, he left journalism, to devote himself to writing. His works included Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Clandestine in Chile, and the memoir Living to Tell the Tale. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87.

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