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After a month in Peru, I am no longer surprised when the party begins to the sound of American rock--in this case "Money Honey" by the Tubes. Along with the Colombian cumbia rhythms popular throughout South America, teenagers buy English-language 45's by the Bee Gees and the Ohio Players. The biggest American dance is the "bump bump," pronounced "ban ban" and featured in a prominent television commercial for stylish sweaters. Many Peruvians believe it is a Peruvian dance. Teenagers are just as ready to break into a wild twist powered by Buddy Holly's "Rock Around...
Jesus as Communist. The bishops of Colombia hold to a staunch conservative line. Bogota's Anibal Cardinal Munoz Duque accepted the title of army brigadier general and suspended 100 priests and nuns who backed striking bank workers. Colombian priests, however, are increasingly activist; 500 of them recently sent a petition to the Vatican charging that their bishops were "allied with the exploiter against the exploited." On the radical left, Father Saturnino Sepulveda, a leader of the Marxistoriented Priests for Latin America, declares: "I see Jesus Christ as the secretary general of the first ever Communist Party...
These are the first words of The Autumn of the Patriarch, and what a way to begin a novel: the theme is artfully insinuated, an atmosphere instantly evoked like a puff of stage smoke, and all conveyed in language that generates a charge of expectancy. Admirers of Colombian Novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez have come to expect such virtuosity. His One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) is a flat-out masterpiece...
With his fictional Colombian town of Macondo, Garcia Márquez created a Latin American Yoknapatawpha in which grubby fact and mythological fantasy mingled into what can loosely be called magic realism. His new novel is a more circumscribed, grimmer and more obscure work. Its setting-mainly the presidential palace of a nameless South American country-shows a little less Faulkner and a little more Kafka. The Castle, with a high temperature-humidity index, comes to mind...
Nevertheless, a few stories have emerged. The Boston Globe (5/5/76) estimates the number of Argentine detainees to be about 7500. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the well-known Colombian novelist, estimates that there were about 10,000 foreign detainees as of April 22 (N.Y. Times, 5/8/76). Some individual cases can be recounted here: Emilio de Ippola, a Paris and Montreal educated Argentine sociologist, disappeared on April 4 along with his wife and Eduardo Molina y Vedia, a reporter from La Opinion. A prompt international campaign of telegrams to Videla inquiring about the disappearances made the junta aware that the news had somehow...