Has died at the age of 87. Widely regarded as one of the 20th centurys greatest authors, he won the nobel prize for literature in 1982. We will hear how he talked about his masterpiece, one hundred years of solitude. And we will speak with fellow novelist Isabel Allende. Alls the most important of latin american writers of all times. The voice of magic realism and the pillar of the latin american boom of literature of the second half of the century. I maestro has died all stop will not mourn him because i have not lost him. I will continue to read his words over and over. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Talks aimed at easing the crisis in ukraine have produced an agreement calling for prorussian groups to surrender government buildings in the eastern part of the country. The United States, russia, ukraine, and European Union all back the deal, which calls for the groups to disarm and vacate occupied areas. But the deal appears unlikely to ease tensions between the United States and russia as Russian Troops remain massed along ukraines border. Speaking thursday, president obama warned the u. S. To take more steps if russia does not back down. Our strong preference would be for mr. Putin to follow through on what is a glimmer of hope coming out of these geneva toks, but we are not going count on it until we see it. In the meantime, we will prepare for what are other options are. Ukraine has offered amnesty to prorussian separatist as long as theyre not suspected of serious crimes. But as occupying the government building in the city of donetsk are so far refusing to leave. Meanwhile, masked men reportedly handed out flyers to jewish forle this week, calling them to register and pay a fee of 50. While the leaflets purported to be from a prorussian leader, the group has denied any involvement. Secretary of state john kerry condemned the flyers. In the year 2014 after all of the miles traveled and all of the journey of history, this is not just intolerable, it is retask. An acceptable. The prorussian separatists have denounced the flyers as a provocation and the supposed order has not been enforced. The legendary novelist deborah l Garcia Marquez has died at the age of 87. Widely regarded as one of the centurys greatest writers. In his home of columbia, president santos has declared a day of mourning. Garcia marquezs masterpiece sold more than 50 million copies in 25 languages. In 1982, he accepted the nobel peace prize. Poets and beggars, musicians and profits, warriors and scoundrels all creatures of that unbridled reality. We have had to ask a little of imagination for our crucial provinces been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude. We will spend the hour honoring th Garcia Marquez. Schedule ond of diluting its supply of Nuclear Material under an agreement with the United States and other world powers. The International AtomicEnergy Agency said iran has reduced its talk of highly enriched uranium and nearly 75 . State Department Spokesperson marie harf said the u. S. Has taken steps to release 450 million in frozen iranian funds. To remind people to this point all sides have kept the commitments made as iran remains in line with its commitments, the u. S. And its p5 1 partners and European Union will continue to uphold our commitments. In south sudan, at least 20 people were killed when gunmen attacked the United Nations base where thousands of civilians were sheltering. A spokesperson for you and secretarygeneral ban kimoon condemned the attack. The attack were civilians or be protected by the United Nations is a serious escalation. The secretarygeneral reminds all parties that any attack on United Nations peacekeepers is unacceptable and constitutes a war crime. On wednesday, ban kimoon warned up to one Million People are facing famine in south sudan unless immediate action is taken by the international community. A former defense minister of also door is facing deportation from the United States for his role in atrocities during the 1980s copper including the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the massacre of more than 1000 people in el mozote. Judge michael horn found general jose garcia helped hide the involvement of soldiers in the 1980 killing of four u. S. Church woman in el salvador and said at the time, the United States was happily backing the salvadoran military. Garcia received political asylum in the United States in 1990. The judges decision was issued in february, but released to the New York Times last week. Immigrants and their supporters from across new england locked the entrance to a Detention Center in boston on thursday. They were protesting obama administrations record deportations which have reached an estimated 2 million. 19 people were arrested, while toe than 150 others rallied support them. The protesters want massachusetts lawmakers to approve a bill limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities under the secure communities program. President rs targeted obama. Allowing us not to testify to the fact that we suffer so many different abuses. Why . Because we are afraid to call police. Why . Because the police will send our moms and dads to jail. I said that directly to the president of the United States. Son of immigrants, you should know better than any that we deserve rights and dignity and you should be recognizing our families. Family members of immigrants in detention are facing deportation have launched a Hunger Strike outside the white house as part of the not one more deportation campaign. Beginners to, obama placed the blame on House Republicans for blocking conference of immigration reform. I know there are republicans in the house as there are in the senate who know this is the right thing to do. Politicsow it is hard for republicans because there are some that are very opposed to this. But, what i also know is that there are families all across the country who are expressing great hardship and pain because this is not getting resolved. The military tribunal for five men accused of planning the 9 11 attacks has been adjourned until june following reports the fbi tried to infiltrate the defense team. The judge acknowledged in apparent fbi investigation on thursday. Defense attorneys say the fbi recruited a contractor on their team is a secret informant. Thets apparently approached contractor is part of a probe into how journalists obtained a document written by one of the defendants, alleged 9 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh mohammed. Be end is person to ever prosecuted on terrorism charges in the u. S. Has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in an online conspiracy to kill a swedish artist. Mohammad Hassan Khalid was just 15 a living in maryland and he began chatting online with a who known as jihad jane is now serving a tenyear sentence for her role in the plot. Halid;s attorneys have argued for leniency. Residents in the town of marion bell, missouri are calling for the resignation of their mayor after he made statements supporting the antisemitic views of Frazier Glenn miller, the white supremacist charged with killing three people at two Jewish Community sites in kansas last weekend. Electedr, who was just on tuesday, came under fire after speaking to a local tv station about the white supremacist miller. He was always nice and friendly and respectful of older people. He respected his elders greatly, as long as they were the same color as him. I kind of agreed with him on toe things, but i dont like express that too much. And the report exposes critical flaws and handling of a rape case involving Star Florida State UniversityFootball Player jameis winston. In december, the local prosecutor said he lacked evidence to charge winston. About a week later, winston won the heisman trophy. Now the New York Times reports there was n virtually no investigation at all, either by police or the university. The University Also failed to take action, allowing winston to keep playing football. The mishandling appears to extend to other cases at fsu, and the report comes as students across the Country Demand their schools take action to hold students who commit Sexual Assault accountable. This week senator Claire Mccaskill of missouri announced what she called an unprecedented survey center 350 colleges and universities to collect information on how the handle Sexual Assault. And a radio journalist Robert Knight has died. Over the years, he cofounded the investigative news series contra gate. He won the george polk award for his radio reporting on the 1989 u. S. Invasion of panama. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. One of the greatest novelists and writers of the 20th century has died. Colombian author Garcia Marquez s masterpiece, 100 years of solitude, won the nobel prize for literature, passed away thursday the agency 87. Columbias president has declared three days of mourning. As a government and in a mosh, i declared a state of National Mourning for three days and ordered all Public Institutions to fly the National Flag at half mast. We also hope colombians will do the same in their homes. Today we will spend the hour work,sing his life and which has sold tens of millions of copies and will feature clips of the writer himself. It has been reported only the bible has sold more copies in the spanishlanguage than the works of Garcia Marquez, who was officially known as gabo throughout latin america. Amonamong his bestknown books, love in the time of cholera, chronicle of a death foretold, and general in his labyrinth. Series of articles about a colombian sailor that drew the ire of the conservative government, so he left to report from europe or he began writing fiction. He returned to columbia in 1967, published what would become his is famous novel, one hundred years of solitude. It weaves together the misfortunes of the family over seven generations and is based in a town called macando, which made many take to represent the town where gabriel Garcia Marquez was raised by his grandparents until he was nine years old. The book is considered one of the masterful examples of the literary genre known as magical realism, and it won him the nobel prize for literature in 1982. The Swedish Academy described it as a book this is an excerpt from gabriel Garcia Marquez accepting the nobel award. Could beuntry that formed of all exiles and forced immigrants of latin america would have a population larger than that in norway. I dare to think it is this outsized reality and not just literary expression that is deserved the attention of the Swedish Academy of letters, a reality not a paper, but one that lives within us and determines each instant of her countless daily dips and that nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic columbia but once i for more, singled out by fortune. Poets and acres, musicians and profits, warriors and scoundrels all creatures of that unbridled reality. We have had asked but little of imagination for our crucial provinces has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude. That was gabriel Garcia Marquez speaking in 1982 when he accepted the nobel prize for literature. One of his biographers, gerald martin, described his book is the first novel in which the ,mericans recognized themselves that define them, celebrated her passion, their intensity, the spirituality and superstition. The grand propensity for failure. It was shaped by his political outlook, which was informed in part by 1928 military massacre, banana workers striking against united fruit company, which later became chiquita. He was an early ally of fidel castro in cuba, and a critic of the u. S. Backedcoup in chile. He was denied a visa to travel to the u. S. Until president bill clinton lifted the ban in 1995. In 1998 im a when he was in his 70s, Garcia Marquez used the money from his nobel award to buy controlling interest in the colombian newsmagazine cambio. He told reporters at the time soon we will be joined by chilean novelist Isabel Allende. First, this is part of the are cas gabriel Garcia Marquez gave. Old andi was 38 years with four books published since i was 20, i sat down at the typewriter and began. Many years later, facing the firing squad, the colonel was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. I had no idea of the meaning, nor the origin of that phrase or where it was leading me. What i know today is that i did not stop writing for single day. For 18 straight months, until i finish the book. It seems incredible, one of my most rising problems was finding paper for the typewriter. I had the bad manners of believing ms. Build words, language mistakes, or errors in grammar or actually creative. And whenever detected, i would tear up the page and throat into the trash basket to start again. With the piece i had gained in the year of practice, i figured it would take me about six months working every morning to complete the book. Unforgettable par was a typist for poets and film makers who completed the final versions of the great works of mexican where thecluding air is clear and several original scripts of others. When i asked her to finish the final version, the novel was a draft of riddled patches, first in black ink and then read to avoid confusion. That was not unusual for a woman used to being in a den of wolfs. Ool stop she got off the bus, slipped and fell under age racial rain. The pages with floating in the streets. With the help of other passengers, she was able to collect and took the pages home to dry page by page with a clothes iron. What could be the topic of an even better book than would have been how we survived. Mercedes and i, with our two i did not gain a dime anywhere, i dont even know how mercedes managed during that month to not miss a single days food in the house. [applause] we resisted the temptation to take out loans with interest until we got the courage in our hearts and we started our first forays to the pawn shop. [laughter] after the fleeting relief of having pawned certain small things, we had to pawn jewels that mercedes had received from family members over time. The expert examine them with the rigor of a surgeon, and checked with his magical eyes the diamonds of the earrings from emerald of the necklace, rubies of the rings, and in the end, he returned them after a long pause will stop all this is pure glass. [laughter] [applause] in the times of greatest difficulty, mercedes told her patient landlord without the slightest tremor in her voice, we can pay you altogether in six months. Excuse me, maam, replied the owner. Do you realize this will be a huge sum. She said, i do, but then we will have it all figured out. [laughter] the good man, who was a senior official of the state, and one of the most elegant and patient man that we ever met, did not tremble his voice, either, and responded very well, maam, your work is all i need. He calculated his accounts and said, i await you on september 7. [laughter] finally, at the beginning of all of this in 1966, mercedes and i went to the post office of mexico city to sensible the series the final version of, one hundred years of solitude. A package of 590 typewritten pages, doublespaced, on ordinary paper and addressed to francisco, literary director of south american publishers. The postal employee put the package on the scale, made his mental calculations, and said it will cost 82 pesos. Mercedes counted the bills and loose change she had left in her purse and faced reality. We only have 53. Opened the package, divided into two equal parts, and send one card to buenos aires, without even asking how we were going to get the money to send the rest. Only later did we realize we have not sent the first part, but the last. [laughter] [applause] but before we got the money to send it, a publisher bigger to read the first half of the book eager to read the first half of the book, send us the money for the first part. That was how we came to be born in our lives today. [applause] gabriel Garcia Marquez, passed away the age of 87 yesterday. We dedicating today show to remembering the man considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. When we come back, we will discuss his life and his work with Isabel Allende, the bestselling chilean writer and one of latin americas most renowned and revered novelists. We will be back in a moment. [music break] this is democracy no