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Has died at the age of 87. Widely regarded as one of the 20th centurys greatest authors, he won the nobel prize for literature in 1982. We will hear how he talked about his masterpiece, one hundred years of solitude. And we will speak with fellow novelist Isabel Allende. Alls the most important of latin american writers of all times. The voice of magic realism and the pillar of the latin american boom of literature of the second half of the century. I maestro has died all stop will not mourn him because i have not lost him. I will continue to read his words over and over. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Talks aimed at easing the crisis in ukraine have produced an agreement calling for prorussian groups to surrender government buildings in the eastern part of the country. The United States, russia, ukraine, and European Union all back the deal, which calls for the groups to disarm and vacate occupied areas. But the deal appears unlikely to ease tensions between the United States and russia as Russian Troops remain massed along ukraines border. Speaking thursday, president obama warned the u. S. To take more steps if russia does not back down. Our strong preference would be for mr. Putin to follow through on what is a glimmer of hope coming out of these geneva toks, but we are not going count on it until we see it. In the meantime, we will prepare for what are other options are. Ukraine has offered amnesty to prorussian separatist as long as theyre not suspected of serious crimes. But as occupying the government building in the city of donetsk are so far refusing to leave. Meanwhile, masked men reportedly handed out flyers to jewish forle this week, calling them to register and pay a fee of 50. While the leaflets purported to be from a prorussian leader, the group has denied any involvement. Secretary of state john kerry condemned the flyers. In the year 2014 after all of the miles traveled and all of the journey of history, this is not just intolerable, it is retask. An acceptable. The prorussian separatists have denounced the flyers as a provocation and the supposed order has not been enforced. The legendary novelist deborah l Garcia Marquez has died at the age of 87. Widely regarded as one of the centurys greatest writers. In his home of columbia, president santos has declared a day of mourning. Garcia marquezs masterpiece sold more than 50 million copies in 25 languages. In 1982, he accepted the nobel peace prize. Poets and beggars, musicians and profits, warriors and scoundrels all creatures of that unbridled reality. We have had to ask a little of imagination for our crucial provinces been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude. We will spend the hour honoring th Garcia Marquez. Schedule ond of diluting its supply of Nuclear Material under an agreement with the United States and other world powers. The International Atomic Energy Agency said iran has reduced its talk of highly enriched uranium and nearly 75 . State Department Spokesperson marie harf said the u. S. Has taken steps to release 450 million in frozen iranian funds. To remind people to this point all sides have kept the commitments made as iran remains in line with its commitments, the u. S. And its p5 1 partners and European Union will continue to uphold our commitments. In south sudan, at least 20 people were killed when gunmen attacked the United Nations base where thousands of civilians were sheltering. A spokesperson for you and secretarygeneral ban kimoon condemned the attack. The attack were civilians or be protected by the United Nations is a serious escalation. The secretarygeneral reminds all parties that any attack on United Nations peacekeepers is unacceptable and constitutes a war crime. On wednesday, ban kimoon warned up to one Million People are facing famine in south sudan unless immediate action is taken by the international community. A former defense minister of also door is facing deportation from the United States for his role in atrocities during the 1980s copper including the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the massacre of more than 1000 people in el mozote. Judge michael horn found general jose garcia helped hide the involvement of soldiers in the 1980 killing of four u. S. Church woman in el salvador and said at the time, the United States was happily backing the salvadoran military. Garcia received political asylum in the United States in 1990. The judges decision was issued in february, but released to the New York Times last week. Immigrants and their supporters from across new england locked the entrance to a Detention Center in boston on thursday. They were protesting obama administrations record deportations which have reached an estimated 2 million. 19 people were arrested, while toe than 150 others rallied support them. The protesters want massachusetts lawmakers to approve a bill limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities under the secure communities program. President rs targeted obama. Allowing us not to testify to the fact that we suffer so many different abuses. Why . Because we are afraid to call police. Why . Because the police will send our moms and dads to jail. I said that directly to the president of the United States. Son of immigrants, you should know better than any that we deserve rights and dignity and you should be recognizing our families. Family members of immigrants in detention are facing deportation have launched a Hunger Strike outside the white house as part of the not one more deportation campaign. Beginners to, obama placed the blame on House Republicans for blocking conference of immigration reform. I know there are republicans in the house as there are in the senate who know this is the right thing to do. Politicsow it is hard for republicans because there are some that are very opposed to this. But, what i also know is that there are families all across the country who are expressing great hardship and pain because this is not getting resolved. The military tribunal for five men accused of planning the 9 11 attacks has been adjourned until june following reports the fbi tried to infiltrate the defense team. The judge acknowledged in apparent fbi investigation on thursday. Defense attorneys say the fbi recruited a contractor on their team is a secret informant. Thets apparently approached contractor is part of a probe into how journalists obtained a document written by one of the defendants, alleged 9 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh mohammed. Be end is person to ever prosecuted on terrorism charges in the u. S. Has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in an online conspiracy to kill a swedish artist. Mohammad Hassan Khalid was just 15 a living in maryland and he began chatting online with a who known as jihad jane is now serving a tenyear sentence for her role in the plot. Halid;s attorneys have argued for leniency. Residents in the town of marion bell, missouri are calling for the resignation of their mayor after he made statements supporting the antisemitic views of Frazier Glenn miller, the white supremacist charged with killing three people at two Jewish Community sites in kansas last weekend. Electedr, who was just on tuesday, came under fire after speaking to a local tv station about the white supremacist miller. He was always nice and friendly and respectful of older people. He respected his elders greatly, as long as they were the same color as him. I kind of agreed with him on toe things, but i dont like express that too much. And the report exposes critical flaws and handling of a rape case involving Star Florida State University Football Player jameis winston. In december, the local prosecutor said he lacked evidence to charge winston. About a week later, winston won the heisman trophy. Now the New York Times reports there was n virtually no investigation at all, either by police or the university. The University Also failed to take action, allowing winston to keep playing football. The mishandling appears to extend to other cases at fsu, and the report comes as students across the Country Demand their schools take action to hold students who commit Sexual Assault accountable. This week senator Claire Mccaskill of missouri announced what she called an unprecedented survey center 350 colleges and universities to collect information on how the handle Sexual Assault. And a radio journalist Robert Knight has died. Over the years, he cofounded the investigative news series contra gate. He won the george polk award for his radio reporting on the 1989 u. S. Invasion of panama. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. One of the greatest novelists and writers of the 20th century has died. Colombian author Garcia Marquez s masterpiece, 100 years of solitude, won the nobel prize for literature, passed away thursday the agency 87. Columbias president has declared three days of mourning. As a government and in a mosh, i declared a state of National Mourning for three days and ordered all Public Institutions to fly the National Flag at half mast. We also hope colombians will do the same in their homes. Today we will spend the hour work,sing his life and which has sold tens of millions of copies and will feature clips of the writer himself. It has been reported only the bible has sold more copies in the spanishlanguage than the works of Garcia Marquez, who was officially known as gabo throughout latin america. Amonamong his bestknown books, love in the time of cholera, chronicle of a death foretold, and general in his labyrinth. Series of articles about a colombian sailor that drew the ire of the conservative government, so he left to report from europe or he began writing fiction. He returned to columbia in 1967, published what would become his is famous novel, one hundred years of solitude. It weaves together the misfortunes of the family over seven generations and is based in a town called macando, which made many take to represent the town where gabriel Garcia Marquez was raised by his grandparents until he was nine years old. The book is considered one of the masterful examples of the literary genre known as magical realism, and it won him the nobel prize for literature in 1982. The Swedish Academy described it as a book this is an excerpt from gabriel Garcia Marquez accepting the nobel award. Could beuntry that formed of all exiles and forced immigrants of latin america would have a population larger than that in norway. I dare to think it is this outsized reality and not just literary expression that is deserved the attention of the Swedish Academy of letters, a reality not a paper, but one that lives within us and determines each instant of her countless daily dips and that nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic columbia but once i for more, singled out by fortune. Poets and acres, musicians and profits, warriors and scoundrels all creatures of that unbridled reality. We have had asked but little of imagination for our crucial provinces has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude. That was gabriel Garcia Marquez speaking in 1982 when he accepted the nobel prize for literature. One of his biographers, gerald martin, described his book is the first novel in which the ,mericans recognized themselves that define them, celebrated her passion, their intensity, the spirituality and superstition. The grand propensity for failure. It was shaped by his political outlook, which was informed in part by 1928 military massacre, banana workers striking against united fruit company, which later became chiquita. He was an early ally of fidel castro in cuba, and a critic of the u. S. Backedcoup in chile. He was denied a visa to travel to the u. S. Until president bill clinton lifted the ban in 1995. In 1998 im a when he was in his 70s, Garcia Marquez used the money from his nobel award to buy controlling interest in the colombian newsmagazine cambio. He told reporters at the time soon we will be joined by chilean novelist Isabel Allende. First, this is part of the are cas gabriel Garcia Marquez gave. Old andi was 38 years with four books published since i was 20, i sat down at the typewriter and began. Many years later, facing the firing squad, the colonel was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. I had no idea of the meaning, nor the origin of that phrase or where it was leading me. What i know today is that i did not stop writing for single day. For 18 straight months, until i finish the book. It seems incredible, one of my most rising problems was finding paper for the typewriter. I had the bad manners of believing ms. Build words, language mistakes, or errors in grammar or actually creative. And whenever detected, i would tear up the page and throat into the trash basket to start again. With the piece i had gained in the year of practice, i figured it would take me about six months working every morning to complete the book. Unforgettable par was a typist for poets and film makers who completed the final versions of the great works of mexican where thecluding air is clear and several original scripts of others. When i asked her to finish the final version, the novel was a draft of riddled patches, first in black ink and then read to avoid confusion. That was not unusual for a woman used to being in a den of wolfs. Ool stop she got off the bus, slipped and fell under age racial rain. The pages with floating in the streets. With the help of other passengers, she was able to collect and took the pages home to dry page by page with a clothes iron. What could be the topic of an even better book than would have been how we survived. Mercedes and i, with our two i did not gain a dime anywhere, i dont even know how mercedes managed during that month to not miss a single days food in the house. [applause] we resisted the temptation to take out loans with interest until we got the courage in our hearts and we started our first forays to the pawn shop. [laughter] after the fleeting relief of having pawned certain small things, we had to pawn jewels that mercedes had received from family members over time. The expert examine them with the rigor of a surgeon, and checked with his magical eyes the diamonds of the earrings from emerald of the necklace, rubies of the rings, and in the end, he returned them after a long pause will stop all this is pure glass. [laughter] [applause] in the times of greatest difficulty, mercedes told her patient landlord without the slightest tremor in her voice, we can pay you altogether in six months. Excuse me, maam, replied the owner. Do you realize this will be a huge sum. She said, i do, but then we will have it all figured out. [laughter] the good man, who was a senior official of the state, and one of the most elegant and patient man that we ever met, did not tremble his voice, either, and responded very well, maam, your work is all i need. He calculated his accounts and said, i await you on september 7. [laughter] finally, at the beginning of all of this in 1966, mercedes and i went to the post office of mexico city to sensible the series the final version of, one hundred years of solitude. A package of 590 typewritten pages, doublespaced, on ordinary paper and addressed to francisco, literary director of south american publishers. The postal employee put the package on the scale, made his mental calculations, and said it will cost 82 pesos. Mercedes counted the bills and loose change she had left in her purse and faced reality. We only have 53. Opened the package, divided into two equal parts, and send one card to buenos aires, without even asking how we were going to get the money to send the rest. Only later did we realize we have not sent the first part, but the last. [laughter] [applause] but before we got the money to send it, a publisher bigger to read the first half of the book eager to read the first half of the book, send us the money for the first part. That was how we came to be born in our lives today. [applause] gabriel Garcia Marquez, passed away the age of 87 yesterday. We dedicating today show to remembering the man considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. When we come back, we will discuss his life and his work with Isabel Allende, the bestselling chilean writer and one of latin americas most renowned and revered novelists. We will be back in a moment. [music break] this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Today we remember the colombian novelist gabriel Garcia Marquez who died thursday the agent 87 and widely regarded as one of the centurys greatest writers. His masterpiece sold more than 50 million copies in 25 languages. To talk more about gabriel Garcia Marquez, were joined by Isabel Allende, bestselling chilean writer and one of latin americas most renowned novelists. Shes the author of some 20 books including the house of spirits, daughter of fortune and her latest book is called river trico she now lives in california, but was born in peru in 1942. Her fathers first cousin was slvador allende, chile president between 19701973. When Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973, Isabel Allende fled to venezuela. Were joined now by Isabel Allende. It is an honor to have you with us for this hour. To discuss the person who has so shaped literature, not only in latin america, but has had an influence all over the world. Talk about gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is hard to talk about. Very emotional. He is the master of masters. The boom of latin american worldture that took the by hold in the second half of 1963 withy, began in a novel by an unknown writer called that is the moment when the world noticed that we have great writers. There were many voices. But the voice that really was the pillar of this movement was gabriel Garcia Marquez with, one hundred years of solitude. Every novel afterward was not only translated and he had any awards, but they were popular novels. Like reading dickens. Adople in the streets re gabriel Garcia Marquez. Every book he wrote have popular acclaim. In a way, he conquered readers and conquered the world, and told the world about latin americans. And told us who we are. In his pages, we saw ourselves in the mirror them in a way. But amazingly, in his own country, he was virtually the for literary figure it is unusual, he was like a rockstar. Everything he did or said, the country followed and talked about. He was. But in latin america, that is not a rare event. In latin america, some writers, because there were writers, have been elected president. Writers are consulted as if they were prophets or astrologers. They are supposed to know everything. In a way, it makes sense. It is such a complicated and weird continent that latin america is, somehow, writers summarize our reality. The collective dreams and hopes, fears. History, us back our which is usually magical. To you remember when you first read, one hundred years of solitude. The novel was published in 1967. I read it a year later. I had given birth to my son nicholas, who was born in 1966. I had gone back to work and was working in a womens magazine. I remember when i read the book. I did not go to work. I just sat there with a book until i finished it. It was as if someone was telling me my own story. It was my family, my country, the people i knew. Magicalhere was nothing about it. It was my grandmother. I also grew up in the house of my grandparents as he did. The story just heard about his manuscript, sending it in two batches because he could not afford the same happened with the house of the spirits many years later. It was living in venezuela and did not have money to send the whole manuscript. There were so many similarities. , whove the same agent often she would say to me that i had reactions like him. For example, we would receive a contract and never read it, just signed it. Particular,n in suddenly, we would read it. I would say, no, this one im not going to sign. She was in spain. She was in spain. That time when you feel totally identified with his words, with his work, with his personality. He was a difficult man, but he was so creative, so quick in response. He was an amazing man. What was it about one hundred years of solitude that made it such a powerful book, not just in latin america, but throughout the world . Here is basically the story of several generations of a family in a forgotten part of columbia, small little town, isolated from the world. What was it about that book that made such an important and seminal work . What happened with magic realism and why people all over the world connected to it is because the world and lives are mysterious. We dont control anything. We dont have explanations for everything. We try to live in a controlled world because we feel safe. In this book, and the books that followed, there was this explosion of the unbelievable, which is around us all the time. It is an acceptance that we dont control everything. There are no explanations. There are spirits. Prophetic dreams. Things that happen that are magical because we cannot explain them. Supposed centuries ago, any phenomenon like electricity would be considered magical. Maybe 200 years of solitude will not be able to explain what is magical to us. In this clip from the 1998 documentary, gabriel Garcia Marquez talks about the role women played in his life when he was a young boy. Men inere the only two house full of women. My life was a strange one because the women, who were ruled over by my grandmother, were living in a supernatural world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez elaborated on the influences grandmother had on him as a child and developing writer. This is a clip of an interview he did with the spanish broadcaster rtve. My grandmother was like my mother to me. She was a person who was quite superstitious. I always had the impression should a secret link to certain supernatural powers, because in my infancy, it was always a marvel to see how she always had a way of knowing things and forcing things and having prophecies that would be fulfilled. She was a nervous type and died at a very old age and quite delirious, of course, but the other thing i remember well is that she spoke it type of spanish that was extraordinary, full of spellbinding images. This has been a launching point for me as a writer. I have now researched all of her terminology, all her refrains, her words. Now i know them all consciously, but i grew up with those words in those terms without construction, as if it was the natural speech of the people because it was what she used in her speech. With that language, i wrote this book. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, speaking to the spanish broadcaster rtve. Our guest for the hour is Isabel Allende, in this exclusive, interview with her responding to gabriel Garcia Marquezs death. Magic realism. How is that phrase coined and the influence it has had well, on you as a writer, and people all over the world . First of all, gabriel Garcia Marquez is not invented. Towas the one who is able put it together in such a fantastic way that it was accepted all over. But it began long before. I would say magic realism begins with the confused doors they came to latin america conquistadors that came to land america. They were writing letters to the king of spain in which fountains of youth you could pick up the gold and the diamonds from the floor, the people had unicorns and one foot so big that at fiesta time, it would raise like a parasol to have shade. Im not making this up. These are in the letters. So that magical getting of latin america and spain together, this reality was created. Agreat cuban writer was one who first put the term together, and then Garcia Marquez popularized it. To begin inid germany, that the first person who ever put together magic and realism was in germany. Can you read the words of gabriel Garcia Marquez, those words you read when you were staying home from work because you could not put the book down . In spanish or english. And both. Let me start with spanish. In spanish, you sound so much better. This is the beginning. [speaking spanish] now in english. Later, as he faced the firing squad, the kernel was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time, macando was a village of 20 adobe houses built on the bank of the river of clearwater that ran along the bed of polished stones, which were quite an enormous like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent, that many lacked names. In order to indicate them, it was necessary to point. That is Isabel Allende routing from gabriel Garcia Marquezs, one hundred years of solitude. Obviously, one of the big influences on his life was not only his own family upbringing, but the Political Climate in which he grew up from the time of the infamous in columbia were over 300,000 people were killed in the civil war much later on enormouswars, the dislocation of colombian society. Talk about his political views and development and how he showed them through his literature. He was a leftist. He became friends with the dell castro very early on fidel castro very early on in the revolution. He was adored in cuba. He lived there and visited cuba many times. He formed the Film Institute in havana. Views brought him a lot of trouble in columbia. He could not live in columbia. His life was threatened. He lived in mexico and many other places. In mexico, actually. He is not the only one, because many of our writers of that time lived in exile and wrote in exile. In europe and other places, because it was unsafe to live in their own country. It happened also in chile. The wave of chilean writers wrote in exile. I want to go to a clip from the documentary, gabriel Garcia Marquez a witch writing literature which he talks about his time in paris. It was the 1950s. He had fled colombia, and how many of his fellow writers from latin america rossland paris, faced dictators at home. What have been important for me in paris was the perspectives. Acquired in latin america. That was gabriel Garcia Marquez, gabriel Garcia Marquez a witch writing literature documentary. Isabel allende, youre just describing this. Also talking about what influenced him, your own country, your cousin, the president of chile, salvador allende, taken down by Augusto Pinochet, died in the palace on another september 11, september 11, 1973. Wroteriel Garcia Marquez about that. He was very active against the dictatorship. Chile was like the most visible military coup and dictatorship in the world. The world paid a lot of attention to chile, but there were dictators all over latin america. Startedn, the dirty war in argentina. The situation was awful. Brazil, many places, there was nowhere to go. There were masses of people running away from their own countries and trying to find refuge in another place, and then nor be a dictatorship and the other place. That happened to many chileans. Many which argentina and died in argentina. Gabriel Garcia Marquez had already lived it in his youth in his own country. He was in paris because he was running away from the oppressive government. He wrote about that in a book. In a great metaphor of all latin america, he summarizes the horror of autocratic governments and ignorance and abuse, exportation, killings. Allink that book represents those dictatorships. Were talking with salvador allende, the great chilean writer, one of latin americas most renowned novelists. Shes speaking about the death of a giant of the 20th century, gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died in his home in mexico outside of his country colombia at the age of 87 on thursday. We will continue this discussion in a moment. [music break] this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. As we remember the colombian novelist gabriel Garcia Marquez who died thursday at the age of 87 at his home in mexico. He is widely regarded as one of the centurys greatest writers. Our guest in the studio is Isabel Allende, the bestselling chilean writer the one of latin americas most renowned novelist as she joins us for this exclusive interview in our studios here in new york. I wanted to remark as Isabel Allende has said, that gabriel Garcia Marquez is to with his in his writings. All of us who have read his books over the years, we have our own favorite passages, haunting passages that stay with us for years. I want to read one from the general in his labyrinth. The story of the great liberator and his last days. Amazing thing, you have the figure known throughout latin america, revered throughout latin america, spent his life in wars of liberation. In his final days, marquez has a passage where he talks about all ollivars disposition to literature where his secretaries were reading to him. Here he is dying. Marquez writes it was the last book you read in its entirety. You been a reader of veracity during the rest this after battles and the rest after love, but a reader without order or method. He read at any hour in whatever light was available. Sometimes strolling under the trees, sometimes on horseback under the sun. Sometimes in different cultures rattling over cobbled pavements, sometimes swaying the hammock as he dictated a letter. A bookseller in lima had been surprised at the abundance and variety of works he selected from a general catalog that listed everything from greek. Hilosophers in his youth, he read the romantics under the influence of his tutor, and continued to devour them as if you are reading himself and his own idealistic intense temperament. They were impassioned readings that marked him for the rest of his life will stop in the end, he Read Everything that came his way and did not have a favorite author, but rather any who had been favorites at different times. The bookcases in the very stones he lived and were always crammed full in the bedrooms in the hallways were turned into narrow passes between steep cliffs of books and mountains of aaron documents that proliferated as he passed and pursued him without mercy in their quest for archival peace. He never was able to read all the books he owned. When he moved to another city, he left them in the care of his most trustworthy friends, although he never heard anything about them again. His life of fighting obliged him to leave a trail behind a books and paper stretching over 400 leagues from bolivia to venezuela. Even before his eyes began to fail, he had a secretaries read to him, then he read no other way because of the annoyance that eyeglasses cost him. But his interest in what he read was decreasing at the same time. As always, he attributed this to a cause beyond his control. The fact is, there are fewer and fewer good books, he would say. And that is from the general and his labyrinth. The image of a what spinning his life fighting, but always caring this huge amount of books and trying to Read Everything he could, is classic gabriel Garcia Marquez. I want to go back to gabriel Garcia Marquez in his own words as juan read them as well from his book. This is him talking about himself as a journalist , and this reminded me of you,isabel. He started out as a report in the 1950s and return to it erotically throughout his career as a novelist. This is part of a 1971 interview he did with the legendary writer pablo neruda. I would like to return to journalism, above all, to be a reporter because i have him the impression that you lose your sense of reality. It can work if the reporter has the advantage of every day being in contact with the immediate reality. Marquezwas garcia speaking in 1971. In this clip from the 1998 documentary, gabriel Garcia Marquez a witch writing literature he talks about why he became a journalist. Your thoughts, Isabel Allende , on gabriel Garcia Marquez talking about journalism and fiction . U2 started as a journalist yo u, too, started as a journalist. Many did. It even as they became novelists, they continued working as journalists. It gives you ideas. Youre in touch with reality. Youre in touch with people, listening to people stories. In my case, i started as a journalist, but i was a lousy journalist. I never could stick to the truth. Or i can never be objective. Neither can most analysts. [laughter] he is making that up. That first clip for he is eruda, and for those who dont know who he is, his significance, but also that meeting you had with him a few days before he died, talking about journalism . He was our second novel prize for literature for poetry. He was known all over the world. His poetry was translated all over the world. He won the nobel prize. When he got sick, he went back to chile because he wanted to die and be buried in his house where his tomb is now. There is a rock on and his wife are buried. Shortly before the military coup of 1973, i visited him. It was a good day for him. Around. P and we had lunch. Chilean fish and white wine. And i said, can i do the interview now because it is getting late and i have to go back to santiago . He said, what interview . Well, i cant interview. He said, no way. I would never be interviewed by you. You are the worst analyst in this country. You lie all the time. You can never say the truth. You put yourself in the middle of everything. You can never be objective. Im sure if you dont have a story, you will make it up. [laughter] speakings pablo neruda to you. Your final thoughts on gabriel Garcia Marquez . Before, my heart is mourning, but not my mind. In a way, i feel great sadness. But he has been gone for many years now. He has not been writing for many years. But the books are immortal and will always be with us. And i will be able to read them over and over forever. So he is always with us. I wanted thank you very much for taking this time, Isabel Allende, for these brief days youve been in new york to spend the morning with us. Isabel allende, the great chilean writer, one of latin americas most renowned novelists, now lives in the bay area in california. She is the author of some 20 books. Her latest book is called ripper. She was born in peru. Chiley was in today where she would back to. We will do the full interview with Isabel Allende about her work next week. But for now, this does it for democracy now democracy now is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. Email your comments to outreach democracynow. Org or mail them to democracy now p. O. 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