Colombia fires García Márquez in an act with the highest authorities of the State

President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, during a tribute to the late Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, held at the Cathedral of Bogota. (AP)

Standing with a standing ovation, Colombia, represented by the highest authorities of the State , paid tribute Tuesday to Gabriel García Márquez , as a literary genius and a human being, in a ceremony held at the Cathedral of Bogota. President Juan Manuel Santos led the ceremony in memory of the writer, fallecido last Thursday in Mexico City , in a cathedral full of special guests, while hundreds of people watched the ceremony from giant screens installed in the Plaza de Bolívar until rain fell.

All our gratitude, all the affection, all tributes to this man giant After a performance of the Requiem in D Minor by Mozart, by the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia and Sociedad Coral Santa Cecilia Santos delivered a eulogy in which he praised “the Colombian soul” of man who could translate “possessed with magic and” the country and the Caribbean. “And all our appreciation, all the affection, all tributes to the man who wrote this giant gold letters the name of Colombia on the world stage,” he said about the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

This tribute follows taxed este García Márquez Monday at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City , attended the writer’s family and I was headed by Santos and his Mexican counterpart , Enrique Peña Nieto.

Colombia homage to its most universal writer continue on Wednesday with the simultaneous reading Colonel no one writes in libraries and schools across the country on the occasion Day of the Book and the Language and other activities in the coming days.

Although he had no religious character, the act on Tuesday began with a reading from the Gospel of St. Matthew on the Beatitudes of Jesus , after which the Archbishop of Bogotá, Cardinal Rubén Salazar, spoke of the novelist, who said: “We opened roads site for free from injustice and violence to build peace” p> Also to peace, in honor of Colombian Nobel died, President Santos spoke in his speech. “ Gabo was a man committed to the fate of their country and Latin America, a man of deep convictions, concerned about justice, education and, especially, for the achievement of peace” Bush said. Santos stressed that García Márquez “sought peace, worked for peace, always wanted a Colombia in peace and in his memory we will not falter in this task, the largest we have as a nation.”

was a man committed to the fate of his country and Latin America, a man of deep convictions In the cathedral, decorated with roses and yellow butterflies, High Government members , the diplomatic corps, the holders of Congress, the courts, personalities of the economy and culture, plus the presidents Belisario Betancur (1982-1986), Cesar were present Gaviria (1990-1994) and Ernesto Samper (1994-1998), all with a yellow flower in the lapel. Santos said the tribute was to remind a man of many facets , which he called “our most admired fellow.”

“Today we remember and pay tribute to Gabo writer, journalist Gabo, to forming new generations Gabo, Gabo militant just causes , vallenato Gabo, humanitarian Gabo, Gabo film promoter and most of all ( …) to Gabo and warm friend, best friend to his friends, “he said.

For all these reasons the head of state invited those present to stand to provide great applause,” leave the soul and be heard in the confines of the planet “ the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude , but also the human being that was Gabriel García Márquez.

After the standing ovation , the event closed with a musical background Symphony Orchestra, which rose from the solemnity of Mozart’s Requiem at the merry notes house in the air , one vallenato song typical music of the Colombian Atlantic coast and a favorite of García Márquez. And like the character of Mauricio Babilonia Hundred Years of Solitude , which was always surrounded by yellow butterflies , a cloud of them but made of paper and you fired for two guns , wrapped attendees out of the cathedral.

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Colombia fires García Márquez in an act with the highest authorities of the State