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FILE - In this March 1, 2011 file photo, Mexican telecom tycoon and world's richest man Carlos Slim, left, and British financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, right, help Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the inauguration of the Soumaya Museum's new home in Mexico City. Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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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)
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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. Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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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. Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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In this April 11, 2014 photo, a girl jumps rope in a boxing gym as visitors arrive on a theatrical tour of Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood. Tepito's tough reputation is well-earned. Along with the killings in recent years, residents sometimes fight with rocks and glass bottles against police trying to conduct raids at houses believed to be sheltering drugs and pirated merchandise. The neighborhood has also earned its fierce reputation through its history of producing professional boxers. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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In this April 11, 2014 photo, actor Raul Briones stands in front of a mural depicting neighborhood residents killed by alcoholism and heart attacks as their souls prepare to meet Christ during a theater performance in the Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City. Many attending the production “Safari in Tepito” say it helped them better understand an area they would not have visited otherwise. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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In this April 11, 2014 photo, visitors applaud as motorcycle drivers from Tepito perform a synchronized ride at the conclusion of a theater project showcasing the lives of residents of the troubled neighborhood in Mexico City. The project, titled "Safari in Tepito" has provided employment for some residents, such as the motorcycle drivers. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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In this April 11, 2014 photo, photographs and keepsakes are wedged between the top bunk mattress and bed frame in the bedroom of Martin Camarillo, 35, during a theater show in Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood. Organizers and attendees of the theater project reject the idea they are exploiting the residents’ lives for their own entertainment, saying “Safari in Tepito” aims to increase understanding of the poor in a country where nearly 50 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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In this April 11, 2014 photo, dolls sit on a couch in the apartment of Lourdes Ruiz in Tepito's Fortaleza housing complex in Mexico City. A small theater company led by one of the countryís best-known actors recently began leading groups of people on evening walks and motorcycle rides through Tepito to show them the human side of a neighborhood identified with crime and poverty. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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In this April 11, 2014 photo, young men carry a coffin past the outside of a church as pat of a theater performance bringing together professional actors and local residents in the Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City. Named "Safari in Tepito," the experimental theater project takes people into the cramped apartments of residents who perform fictionalized renditions of tales from their tough lives alongside professional actors. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
