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Maria Cristina Caballero, a research editor for Semana Magazine and currently a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, said death threats forced her to leave Colombia...
Just after participating in a yearlong journalism program at Harvard in 1996-97, Caballero recalled one of her first stories back in her home country. She was sent to cover a massacre in which more than 30 people were killed, literally "cut in pieces," she said. It was just one example of how journalists are constantly reporting on violence and putting themselves in situations where extremely malicious people are ready to take action, she said...
...result, the press in many cases diminished McCarthy's great value by making him out to be some sort of hermit caballero and by all but ignoring his remarkable prose. Not that any of it bothered him enough to respond. He just kept working, and this week bookstores are receiving copies of The Crossing (Knopf; 426 pages; $23), the centerpiece in a trilogy that began with Horses. The hero of that book was a boy ahoof in Mexico in 1950, to whom it was easy to give your heart. The Crossing moves two orphaned brothers on ( horseback across the same...
Bone-thin after four years of declining rations, Mario Caballero, a 52-year- old school administrator in Santiago de Cuba, is one of the older generation whose faith in Fidel is well-nigh religious. If his rhetoric recalls communist dogma of the '50s, it still reflects sentiments deeply etched in the Cuban soul. "Before, our best land was Yankee. The sugar was Yankee. The electric system was Yankee. The phones were Yankee." Never mind that the sugar crop is failing for the second year, that electricity and phones rarely work. "We may be living through a special period," he says...
...CABALLERO--Our Caballero...