Prizewinning Author Involved in Peace Talks
Colombia's Nobel prizewinning novelist Gabriel García Márquez yesterday admitted he has been secretly involved in almost every recent attempt, all unsuccessful, to achieve peace in his country.
The author of One Hundred Years of Solitude is helping host a new peace bid that started at the weekend with a meeting between guerrillas and the government in Havana. Talks continue until Thursday.
"I've been in all the failed talks so far," García Márquez told Spain's El País newspaper. "Every time we start afresh I am an optimist."
Over the weekend, seven policemen were killed and 33 kidnapped by Colombian guerrillas.
The author of One Hundred Years of Solitude is helping host a new peace bid that started at the weekend with a meeting between guerrillas and the government in Havana. Talks continue until Thursday.
"I've been in all the failed talks so far," García Márquez told Spain's El País newspaper. "Every time we start afresh I am an optimist."
Over the weekend, seven policemen were killed and 33 kidnapped by Colombian guerrillas.
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