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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