News of a Kidnapping

Gabriel García Márquezs news of a kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of colombian history she looked over her shoulder before getting into the car to be sure no one was following herpablo escobar: billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator brutal killer and jefe of the infamous madellín cartel a man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of colombia, and the unwanted attention of the american courtsterrified of the new colombian presidents determination to extradite him to america, escobar found the best bargaining tools he could find: hostagesin the winter of 1990, ten relatives of colombian politicians, mostly women, were abducted and held hostage as escobar attempted to strong-arm the government into blocking his extradition two died, the rest survived, and from their harrowing stories márquez retells, with vivid clarity/