The death of Colombia’s Nobel literature laureate, Gabriel García Márquez, at the age of 87 could indirectly benefit President Juan Manuel Santos as he seeks re-election on 25 May. Santos suitably captured the sense of national loss, eulogising García Márquez as “the greatest Colombian of all time”; but his closest electoral rival, Oscar Iván Zuluaga, the candidate representing Centro Democrático (CD), the party of former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), saw his hopes of taking Santos to a second round dealt a blow by a tweet from a CD deputy-elect, María Fernanda Cabal, which seriously misjudged the public mood.End of preview - This article contains approximately 966 words.
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