Tag: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  García Márquez relative rescued from kidnappers in Colombia after 3 months

  

  Melissa Martínez García, a relative of the late Nobel Literature Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been freed after being kidnapped and held for ransom for over three months, Colombian authorities announced Monday.

• Thursday, April 17th 2014 - 22:09 UTC

  OAS Secretary General Insulza: “García Márquez Raised Latin American Literature to Global Heights”

  

  José Miguel Insulza, today expressed his “deep sorrow over the death of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian and Latin American author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, primordial figure of the most prolific and brilliant generation of authors our continent has ever seen, who raised the literature of Latin America to global heights.”

• Saturday, June 11th 2011 - 10:09 UTC

  Colombia signs landmark “Victims Law” to redress victims of internal conflict

  

  Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos signed into law Friday a landmark “Victims' Law” aimed at redressing the estimated 4 million victims of the country's long-running internal running conflict.