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Global Housing Indicators Working Group launched at World Urban Forum MEDELLN, Colombia (April 11, 2014) — Building on nearly two decades of collecting and analyzing comprehensive housing indicator data, Habitat for Humanity International joined other urban development experts in introducing the newly formed Global Ho
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Dusty home town remembers Garcia Marquez with plenty of rum Aracataca (Colombia) (AFP) - In his sleepy, tropical home town, the people who knew the late Nobel-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a child are greeting his death with warm memories and hope. And (Garcia Marquez) just came out to go to school," recal
Yahoo! News | Apr 19, 2014 9:55 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Colombia to honour Garcia Marquez Colombia announces its own ceremony to honour author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was cremated in Mexico, where he lived for more than 30 years.
BBC News | Apr 19, 2014 8:41 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Colombia hopes to share Garcia Marquez remains MEXICO CITY (AP) The final resting place for the ashes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez remains unclear. It could be Mexico where he lived for decades or his native Colombia. Perhaps even both.
Yahoo! News | Apr 19, 2014 7:00 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Colombia remembers Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 'Thank you Gabo, see you in Macondo' Gabriel Garcia Marquez's home in Colombia has become a site of pilgrimage, following the death on Thursday of the much-loved author
Telegraph.co.uk | Apr 19, 2014 08:51 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Mixed feelings for Garcia Marquez in hometown Mixed feelings for Garcia Marquez in hometown ARACATACA, Colombia Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his homeland had a relationship as conflicted as any in the Nobel laureates twisting and impassioned novels.Colombia inspired and dismayed Garcia Marquez in equal
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87 MEXICO CITY -- Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the world that set his mind churning as a child growing up on Colombia's Caribbean coast.
GoErie.com | Apr 19, 2014 03:29 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend article from Erie, Pennsylvania

Like Joyce, Garca Mrquez gave us a light to follow into the unknown | Peter Carey The greatest writer of our time showed us that a large and generous heart is no impediment to genius, says Peter CareySometime in the very early 1970s two Australian friends returned from Colombia and asked me to ghostwrite the story of their adventures,
The Guardian | Apr 18, 2014 5:09 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Mompox, Colombia: a town from the pages of Gabriel Garca Mrquez Michael Jacobs is struck by a vision of the past in Mompox, Colombia
Telegraph.co.uk | Apr 18, 2014 10:15 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Colombia Mourns Death Of Favorite Son: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, died on Thursday. He made Colombia synonymous with literature, particularly the dreamlike, whimsical story-telling known as magical realism.
NPR.org | Apr 18, 2014 09:09 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

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