Luis Alejandro Velasco, the shipwrecked sailor who was the main character in the slim volume that confirmed Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's reputation as a journalist and ...

Former Navy sailor Luis Alejandro Velasco, who was 66, died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer at his home in Bogota, his […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 77°F.

Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor who spent ten days on a life raft without food or water, was the only survivor. The editor of the Colombian newspaper El Espectador assigned the story to a ...