Word: marulanda
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...made Donoso cautious. His new novel takes major risks. It does without a strong central character around whom the action can revolve. It offers instead the Ventura family: seven adults and their spouses plus 33 children ranging in age from six to 16. This clan spends every summer at Marulanda, a magnificent, fenced-in estate, with a vast plain outside stretching to the horizon in all directions. Barely visible are the blue mountains beyond, where laborers who are virtual slaves mine the Ventura gold...
...needed just there, a complementary color to focus the green composition, as in a Corot landscape?" The woman who makes this reply is Celeste, the family's ultimate arbiter in matters of aesthetics, interior decoration and fashion. She is blind. Similarly, the renowned four-story library at Marulanda is all veneer, a mass assembly of false fronts: "Behind those thousands of proudly bound spines there existed not a single printed letter...
...believe that the grownups will never return; the sublime irresponsibility of the Venturas toward everything but their own wealth and pleasures seems headed toward apotheosis. Some cousins hide in fear, others plot revolution, while others still, in a frenzy they do not understand, tear up the protective fence around Marulanda, breaking the hermetic seal around their lives...
...last major outlaw remaining at large is Pedro Antonio Marín, 32, who goes under the aliases of "Marulanda" and "Tiro Fijo" (''Sure Shot"). A bragging Communist, he leads a band of 300 and rules a fief in the hills of south western Colombia by both persuasion and force. The army is cutting away his peasant support with a program of roads, medical aid and agricultural advice. Patrols are pressing the hunt...
...past few months, two of the worst bandit leaders-el Mosco, the Gnat, and el Sultan-have been killed. Between them, they accounted for 500 murders. Most of the bandits are ordinary killers, but Communist and Castroite agents are busy in the backlands. Last week Pedro Marin Marulanda, a well-known Red who calls himself "Sure Shot," destroyed an army helicopter, murdered its two crewmen and kidnaped the passengers. Bandit Frederico Arango, who was killed last year, had a five-foot bookshelf of Communist bestsellers, including Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare. Pedro Brincos, also killed last year, was found...