Estimados cervantistas,

Nos llegan noticias del siempre amable Michael Mcgaha respecto «Operación 
Dulcinea» en Caracas, Venezuela (cortesía del primer mandatario, el 
presidente Hugo Chávez).  Estoy seguro que será grato leerlo.  La dirección 
de Internet es la siguiente:
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4478007.stm >.

En caso de que algunos sitemas no puedan invocarlo, se les facilita el 
texto abajo (BBC News World Edition, 24 de abril, 2005):

Saludos cordiales de

K. R.  &  A. R. L.
Editores del Coloquio Cervantes
< http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html >

               Free Quixotes big pull in Caracas
               People in the Venezuelan capital
               Caracas have been queuing
               around the block to collect free
               copies of the Spanish
               masterpiece Don Quixote.

               The Venezuelan government is
               handing out a million copies to mark
               the 400th anniversary of its
               publication.

               Populist President Hugo Chavez has
               urged Venezuelans to draw
               inspiration from the figure of Don
               Quixote.

               The tale tells the story of a would-be knight who rides 
around on an old
               nag trying to set the world to rights.

               Crusade

               The event - taking place in 24 cities across the country - 
is being called
               Operation Dulcinea, after Don Quixote's female vision of 
perfection.

               There were revolutionary songs and public readings in 
Bolivar Square,
               Caracas, as people waited for hours to collect their copies 
of the book.

               Some 350,000 copies of the epic
               text of Miguel de Cervantes will be
               handed out in squares nationwide
               while the rest of the million texts
               will be distributed in schools and
               public libraries.

               "We're still oppressed by giants", the Venezuelan Minister 
of Culture,
               Francisco Sesto, told the BBC, "so we want the Venezuelan 
people to
               get to know better Don Quixote, who we see as a symbol of 
the struggle
               for justice and the righting of wrongs."

               Our correspondent says that some critics have seen a less 
flattering
               parallel between the crusade of President Hugo Chavez for a 
better
               world, and Cervantes' deluded fictional hero who cannot tell the
               difference between giants and windmills.

               Don Quixote of La Mancha is the
               second most published book in the
               world, after the Bible.

               It tells of the adventures of a mad
               knight and his faithful sidekick,
               Sancho Panza, with the original
               running to 1,000 pages in archaic
               Spanish.

               Don Quixote recently beat the likes
               of Shakespeare and Tolstoy to be
               named the best work of fiction in a
               survey of leading writers from
               across the world.

               Spain has been leading the celebrations of its most famous 
book, with
               new editions printed along with readings and seminars.



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