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A girl touches the sign outside the Gabriel Garcia Marquez cultural center in downtown Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, April 17, 2014. The Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in Mexico City on Thursday. (AP Photo/Diana Sanchez)

World reacts to death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In This Nov. 18, 2008, file photo, Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Nicarguan author and former Vice President Sergio Ramirez, attend a round table discussion on Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes' work at the UNAM national university in Mexico City. Garcia Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

World reacts to death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 6, 2014 file photo, Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez greets fans and reporters outside his home on his 87th birthday in Mexico City. Garcia Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. The author's magical realist novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Nobel laureate Garcia Marquez dies at 87

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XLAT301 - FILE - This undated file photo of Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez is seen in an unknown location. Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. Garcia Marquez's magical realist novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality. (AP Photo/Hamilton, File)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 1982 file photo, Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez shows his Nobel Prize medal after he delivered his Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden. Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Bjorn Elgstrand, Pool, File)

Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2013, file photo, Colombia's Mario Yepes celebrates after scoring his second goal against Paraguay during a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Asuncion, Paraguay. The &quot;Coffee Growers&quot; ripped through qualification, hammering Uruguay 4-0 on their way to earning 30 points from 16 matches. Falcao sealed qualification with two late goals against Chile, coming from behind for a 3-3 home draw. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)

Colombia’s World Cup hopes hinge on Falcao

By JAIRO ANCHIQUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2013, file photo, Costa Rica's coach Jorge Luis Pinto, from Colombia, gestures during a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Panama in Panama City. The Costa Rican squad will face Uruguay, England and Italy in the northeastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

Costa Rica coach Pinto is a student of the game

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FILE - In this June 11, 2013, file photo, Colombia's Teofilo Gutierrez, celebrates after scoring against Peru during a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Barranquilla, Colombia. The &quot;Coffee Growers&quot; ripped through qualification, hammering Uruguay 4-0 on their way to earning 30 points from 16 matches. Falcao sealed qualification with two late goals against Chile, coming from behind for a 3-3 home draw. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

5 Colombia players to watch at the World Cup

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Pekerman returns to World Cup with Colombia

By JAIRO ANCHIQUE - Associated Press

Heavy Price: Relatives mourn Maj. German Mendez, one of two Colombian police officers killed last month by rebels in the port town of Tumaco. Guerrillas pay $1,000 to anyone who kills a cop, police say. (REUTERS)

U.S. helping Colombia quell Marxist guerrilla group

By Abraham Mahshie — Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2006 file photo, Ramon Isaza, center, commander of the Magdalena Medio Bloc, speaks with his men before turning in their weapons during a disarmament ceremony in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia. Hundreds of right-wing paramilitaries are expected to walk free from prison starting in March 2014 after serving eight-year sentences for crimes that normally carry more than triple the prison terms. Isaza, who is due to be released in October 2014, created the first of the right-wing militias at the end of the 1970s in the Magdalena Valley. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides, File)

Colombian paramilitaries set for release

By LIBARDO CARDONA - Associated Press

Colombia's Juan Cuadrado, right, duels for the ball against Tunisia' s Ammar Jemal during an international friendly soccer match at Cornella-El Prat stadium in Cornella Llobregat, Spain, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

World Cup-bound Colombia draws with Tunisia 1-1

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Objects placed by opposition protesters block a road in the Altamira neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Violence is heating up in Venezuela as an opposition leader faces criminal charges for organizing a rally that set off escalating turmoil in the oil-rich, but economically struggling country. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Paratroopers to join Venezuela crackdown on unrest

By BEN FOX and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, photo, Army Commander Gen. Juan Pablo Rodriguez, right, talks to Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, during a military ceremony in Bogota, Colombia. Santos announced that changes on the military chain of command will be decided Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, after the country's leading newsmagazine, Semana, reported on what it called widespread kickbacks in multimillion-dollar military contracts, and the publication online of an audio recording in which Gen. Leonardo Barrero, the armed forces chief, is heard verbally maligning prosecutors' investigations into the extrajudicial killings that have brought Colombia international reproach. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia’s military chief fired in scandal

By LIBARDO CARDONA - Associated Press

Hammer to lead US at track world championships

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Colombia military hit by second scandal in a month

By LIBARDO CARDONA - Associated Press

Mass. man in 1992 child rape case arrested

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Monaco: Falcao making good recovery after surgery

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Doctor says Falcao is ‘55 percent’ for World Cup

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Colombian soccer star Radamel Falcao arrives for a press conference at the Trindade Hospital in Porto, Portugal, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Colombia and Monaco's striker Falcao is in a race against time to get fit for the World Cup in June after undergoing knee surgery Saturday, Jan. 25, with his doctor giving him a better than 50-50 chance of making it. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)

Falcao leaves Portuguese hospital after knee op

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