A Clinton sighting in Cartagena

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Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, writing today in the Spanish daily El Pais, noted the warm reception that greeted Bill Clinton last month at the international Congress of the Spanish Language in Cartagena, Colombia.

``It is said that comparisons are odious, but in that moment I thought: `How would George W. Bush have been received here.’’

Clinton, Fuentes noted, was accorded a hearty applause and was able to walk the streets of the colonial city and spend three hours with his old friend, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian nobel laureate who was the congress’ star attraction.

``What did you speak about, Gabo?’’ Fuentes asked, using Garcia Marquez’s universal nickname.

``About everything.’’

Posted by Patrick J. McDonnell in Buenos Aires