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Saturday, 25 February 2006 |
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Carlos Fuentes used to be called a Mexican writer Òdisplaying ... the most ebullient imaginationÓ Ð The (London) Times Literary Supplement. |
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Saturday, 18 February 2006 |
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A writersÕ conference is bringing the big-bucks publishing world to San Miguel de Allende, with 10 authors already chosen to discuss their work with a top agent and others hoping to be picked to pitch their manuscripts to the president of a childrenÕs book publisher. |
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Saturday, 18 February 2006 |
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On Thursday, February 16, stacks of donated books were symbollically pushed into a plastic shell that became the first "foundation stone" of Jalisco's new public library. The ceremony marked the official start of construction, which is expected to take at least 18 months. Amid congratulatory speeches, and the dusty aftermath of the Zapopum fair parking lot, Guadalajara's political, industrial and academic elite toasted the Nueva Biblioteca Pubica del Estado de Jalisco "Juan Jose Arreola." In the excitement of the ceremony, it was easy to forget that the work is just beginning, and constructing the new library may be the easiest part. |
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Saturday, 14 January 2006 |
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For those of us who enjoy being totally lost in a fictional world for hours, even days, the 600 pages of Queen of the South is the ideal prescription. From the opening lines: "The telephone rang, and she knew she was going to die," we are caught up in the fascinating life of Teresa Mendoza, a young and vulnerable mexicana, in love with a blond-haired Chicano pilot, Güero Dávila, who is flying drugs from Colombia to San Antonio and El Paso. There are the dangers of arrest and imprisonment from customs and from drug enforcement agents, of course. But there are also worse dangers from the narcotraficantes themselves should Güero Dávila lose a shipment, compromise the drugs or the money, or inform on his bosses. It is a high-risk business based in Sinaloa where the people he works for will not simply settle for his death if he betrays them. He will be tortured for hours until he gives up everyone and everything he knows. Then he will be killed, and his relatives and associates will be hunted down and murdered as well. Güero tells Teresa this and also that he has stashed money, some cocaine, a mysterious notebook and a SIG-Sauer in a safe apartment where she is to go if she ever receives word that he has been killed. |
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