Pantaleon

But the rest of the world copies loud and clear (to use the martial vocabulary of our functionaries or, better yet, of Vargas Llosa's own character, Pantaleon), that this Nobel is as much ours as was the Cuban "boom" sparked by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Saramago. 


Yoani Sanchez: Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel... Yoani Sanchez 2010

The bodega case dates back to a May 2007 raid, when police said they discovered five guns inside the store and arrested Freddy Pantaleon , 45 years old, his 30-year-old son Pedro Pantaleon and worker Alberto Camilo, 55.

Trial Is Test Of Ticket-Fix Scandal Link Sean Gardiner 2011

But the rest of the world copies loud and clear (to use the martial vocabulary of our functionaries or, better yet, of Vargas Llosa's own character, Pantaleon), that this Nobel is as much ours as was the Cuban "boom" sparked by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Saramago. 


Yoani Sanchez: Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel... Yoani Sanchez 2010

To the right (here we have already seen the statues on the left on the first picture of the altar to the right) on the baldachin St. Pantaleon (look with his hands nailed to his head) and on the volute St. Christopher.

Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen 2009

In New York, he staged Vargas Llosa's "The Feast of the Goat," about the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo, in 2003; and a musical version of Vargas Llosa's "Pantaleon and the Visitors," a sendup of military bureaucracy, in 2009.

Jorge Ali Triana brings Gabriel Garcia Marquez tale to GALA Hispanic Theatre David Montgomery 2011

But the rest of the world copies loud and clear (to use the martial vocabulary of our functionaries or, better yet, of Vargas Llosa's own character, Pantaleon), that this Nobel is as much ours as was the Cuban "boom" sparked by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Saramago. 


Yoani Sanchez: Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel... Yoani Sanchez 2010

But let the rest of the world copy this "loud and clear" (to use the martial vocabulary of our functionaries or, better yet, of Vargas Llosa's own character, Pantaleon): this 2010 Nobel is as much ours as the official Cuban enthusiasm (and not only symbolic support) for the previous Nobels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1982) and Jose Saramago (1998).

Yoani Sanchez: Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel... Yoani Sanchez 2010

The problem is that no nursing home will take Pantaleon since he does not have insurance or resources.

Hospital tries to send man in coma back to Mexico 2008

One of those procedures is that the medical center failed to inform the consulate of plans to move Pantaleon, a Mexican citizen.

Hospital tries to send man in coma back to Mexico 2008

Francisco Pantaleon, 30, suffered a severe brain hemorrhage a month ago and has been in a coma at the University of Illinois Medical Center since then.

Hospital tries to send man in coma back to Mexico 2008