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Posts tagged "Colombia"

Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa is the fifth Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Who else should win?

Mario Vargas Llosa courtesy nobelprize.org Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday. The Swedish Academy said he won “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” Vargas Llosa fuses art and politics. He unsuccessfully ran for president of Peru in... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
October 7, 2010 at 8:47 am
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ESPN broadcaster suspended for making "taco" remark. Can you pass the "taco" challenge?

What do Colombia, as in the country, and tacos have in common? Nothing. But ESPN broadcaster Bob Griese clearly doesn’t get that. This weekend he called out NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya, who is from Colombia, for not being in the top five drivers in a weekend race. He’s “out having a taco,” Griese, a... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
October 26, 2009 at 9:40 pm
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