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Colombia Opens Largest Exhibition Ever Dedicated to Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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By Caroll Viana - June 16, 2025 The National Library of  Colombia  has inaugurated the largest exhibition on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, featuring more than 450 manuscripts.  Credit:  Guadalajara Film Festival  / CC BY 2.0 The National Library of Colombia has inaugurated “Everything Is Known: The Story of Gabo’s Creation”, the most extensive and revealing exhibition ever dedicated to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, master of magical realism and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. For the first time in his home country, an exhibition has been mounted that brings together free to the public more than 450 items, including manuscripts, personal belongings, and documents. These materials were recovered from Garcia Marquez’s archive at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, as well as from national and international collections. ‘Everything Is Known: The Story of Gabo’s Creation’, the largest exhibition on Gabriel Garcia Marquez The exhibit opened its do...

Child Labor in Colombia: A Burden on the Most Vulnerable

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By Josep Freixes - June 16, 2025 Child labor in  Colombia  remains a harsh reality for one of the country’s most vulnerable populations, especially in rural areas. Credit: A.P. / Colombia One. Child labor in Colombia remains a crisis affecting the most vulnerable population. Although data from recent years shows this social scourge is not increasing, it remains stable and primarily impacts children in rural areas. According to official data, the child labor rate in the country stands at about 2.9%, rising to 6% in rural areas distant from state control. Child labor: Stealing the future of Colombia’s most vulnerable Marking the International  Day Against Child Labor , observed last Thursday, June 12, it was made known in Colombia that this scourge continues to affect segments of the vulnerable population, especially in rural areas. In the last three months of 2024, there were 311,000  children  under 15 working in Colombia, representing 2.9% of the country’s...

Officials: Assassination suspect caught after ‘largest manhunt in state history’

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  News & Politics June 16, 2025 Vance Boelter is apprehended by Minnesota State Troopers in Sibley County Sunday night. (Provided by Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher) After arrest of Vance Boelter in Sibley County, Gov. Tim Walz calls for unity as he says political violence “cannot be the norm.” By Star Tribune staff The Minnesota Star Tribune Gift Share Listen This article is our live coverage from June 15. Authorities arrested and charged 57-year-old Vance Boelter on Sunday night after he allegedly shot and killed House Democratic leader  Melissa Hortman and her husband  in their Brooklyn Park home and shot and seriously injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in their home in Champlin. He faces two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree attempted murder for the Saturday shootings. Earlier in the weekend, Gov. Tim Walz said the attack appeared to be a targeted act of political violence. Officials said Boelter left at the scene a list o...