Torrijos: The Man and The Myth [Hardcover]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author), Graciela Iturbide (Photographer)

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Hardcover: 112 pages
Publisher: Umbrage Editions; Bilingual edition (Oct 1 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1884167683
ISBN-13: 978-1884167683
Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 23.2 x 1.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 635 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,603,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #64 in Books > History > Americas > Central America > Panama

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In the annals of Latin American politics, Omar Torrijos of Panama was a David against Goliath, a charismatic leader who challenged the landed oligarchy and redistributed land and wealth. He died tragically in a 1981 plane crash widely rumored to be the work of the CIA.

This unique, intensely personal homage by two giant talents—the great Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide and the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez—shows Torrijos as the man behind the story. Never-before-published photographs and never-before-told personal reminiscences offer up candles of memory and understanding and a correction to history. Torrijos’ friend describes a moody, lonely president drinking whiskey all night, and in pre-dawn, summoning one of six different women he knew to keep away the demons. In their eyes, Torrijos is understood not as a dictator who silenced opposition, closed the media, ran up debt, and turned a blind eye to corruption, but as a flawed hero in the footsteps of Simon Bolivar: the first leader to advocate for the poor, yet an innovator in schools and jobs who lured foreign investment to create a regional financial center, and a historical giant whose greatest legacy to his people was the Canal Treaty, signed with President Jimmy Carter in 1977.This is a memoir about a man ahead of his time.

Graciela Iturbide has received many honors, including a W. Eugene Smith Grant in 1987 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988, published numerous books, and has held major exhibitions around the world.

One of the world’s greatest writers and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude , a defining classic of twentieth-century literature, Colombian-born Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

About the Author

Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize, he won international fame with One Hundred Years of Solitude, a defining classic of twentieth-century literature. His many novels create a world of great beauty and great cruelty; a world where love brings both redemption and enslavement; wherethe lines between objective reality and dreams are hopelessly blurred.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Torrijos unVeiled, Aug 17 2011

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I remember the day when I watched with my family the signing of the treaties between Torrijos and Carter in 1977. I was 9. My dad collected all the newspaper articles leading to that momentous day in Panamanian history and left it for me to read. I have never experienced a book about Torrijos like this one before. The pictures are insightful, precise, very good, historical and significant to Panama.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Desde Panama, May 10 2008

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Excelente libro! Contiene fotos muy buenas y los comentarios aun mejores. Frases celebres preferidas : "Nunca cuentes a nuestros hijos quienes son aquellos que nos han hecho daño". "Un politico es aquel que piensa en las proximas elecciones, un estadista es aquel que piensa en las proximas generaciones"

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