THE EMOTIONAL FAREWELL TO GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ IN MEXICO CITY (TRANSLATION)
From BBC Mundo. Read the original in Spanish here. On the day of Gabriel García Márquez’s farewell, it was hot in Mexico City. For hours the sun persistently beat down on thousands of people who patiently waited to say goodbye to the writer, but later the climate changed mood and suddenly the muggy heat […]
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What child in Mexico has gone to the Alameda and not felt joyful and happy? What youngster has not felt their imagination run wild, given over to the sweetest deliriums, to dreams of blissfulness? Francisco Zarco, 1849, plaque near the station Exhale, 100 stations. Mid afternoon a storm rolled across the city. Thunder reverberated with […]
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