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News of a Kidnapping
News of a Kidnapping (Original Spanish title Noticia de un secuestro) is a non-fiction book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It was first published in Spanish in 1996, with an English translation released in 1997.
The book recounts the kidnapping, imprisonment, and eventual release of a handful of prominent figures in Colombia in the early 1990s by the Medellin Cartel, a drug cartel founded and operated by Pablo Escobar.
The book begins with an account of the abductions of Maruja Pachon and Beatriz Villamizar de Guerrero the evening of 7 November 1990. People presume that Maruja was kidnapped because her sister is Gloria Pachon, widow of the journalist and New Liberalism founder Luis Carlos Galan. Beatriz is Maruja's sister-in-law and her personal assistant.
The book then examines the first in a series of related kidnappings. On 30 August 1990, Diana Turbay, director of the TV news program Cripton and magazine Hoy x Hoy, was abducted along with four members of her news team. They include editor Azucena Lievano, writer Juan Vitta, and camera operators Richard Becerra and Orlando Acevedo. German journalist Hero Buss was also with them when they were taken. Turbay is the daughter of former Colombian president and Liberal Party leader Julio Cesar Turbay.
The kidnappings on 18 September 1990 of Marina Montoya and Francisco "Pacho" Santos, editor in chief of El Tiempo newspaper, are also recounted.
External links
News of a Kidnapping on e-notes.com
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