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/ 14 January 2005
When she was nine years old Maribel Dominguez’s family moved from the pine-dotted picturesque volcanoes of Mexico City’s semi-rural southern fringe to the unremitting urban sprawl stretching east alongside an open sewage canal. But there were important compensations.
Mexican opposition politicians are appealing to Gabriel García Márquez, Latin America’s best-known writer, to mediate in the diplomatic crisis that has taken their country’s traditionally good relations with Cuba to the brink of collapse. García Márquez lives mostly in Mexico but is also a personal friend of Fidel Castro.