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Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, García Márquez Confidant, Dies

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Colombia · Culture Key Facts —Full name. Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza —Born. January 1, 1932, in Boyacá, Colombia —Died. July 28, 2026, aged 94 —Key works. ’El olor de la guayaba’ and ’Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano’ —Roles. Journalist, novelist, essayist, and diplomat *A literary witness to the Boom generation, he captured Gabriel García Márquez’s inner […] The post Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, García Márquez Confidant, Dies appeared first on …

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He was one of the closest friends of the Colombian Nobel Prize in Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, and a contributor to Digital Freedom.

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The Colombian journalist and writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, who was one of the closest friends of the Colombian Nobel of Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, died Tuesday at the age of 94, reported the family to the Ministry of Culture. Born in the municipality of Toca, in the department of Boyacá (center), on January 1, 1932, Mendoza developed a prolific career as a journalist, novelist, essayist and diplomat. Throughout his career he occupied, …

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Journalist Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza dies at 94, a close friend of Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel García Márquez, his family confirmed to the government.

·Madrid, Spain
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The author of ‘Años De Fuga’ died at 94 years of age. Several personalities of public life spoke after the news

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From the "dataper" lesson to the training in the weekly newsroom: this is how he molded a whole generation of Colombian reporters in the 1980s The article The Lessons of Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza that marked a generation of journalists was originally published in Las2orillas.co: Stories, Voices and News from Colombia. Copyrights Las2orillas.co

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PULZO broke the news in Colombia on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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