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Christmas is already just around the corner.

I found that this year, just like any other year, time has passed so quickly. However, the year 2006 has been such an unforgettable year for me, since I could introduce the world of Mr. Osvaldo Rios to people around the globe via the internet. I have personally been a big fan of Mr. Rios for almost 10 years, and it is my greatest pleasure to share my interest with other fans through the website. This website means so much to me. I truly appreciate all of you for encouraging me with warm-hearted comments. You kept me motivated and gave me energy to keep going. Thank you very much!

I promise I will try even harder to make the website more entertaining and fulfilling in the year 2007.

Here are season’s greetings from me, Latin style…

¡¡¡Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo!!!

I’ve written earlier that the story of Rauzan is set about 100 years ago, but it is in fact set at the end of the eighteenth century. In the story, the only way to communicate with each other is via an odd informer called Paquito who visits people to collect and provide information. I found that people in the story hardly read newspapers.

I wonder how people back then passed news to relatives and friends who lived far away. Perhaps they went on horseback to do so. I realized that, in Rauzan, the judge, the police chief and the prosecutor are played by the same actor. Whenever criminals were publicly executed, crowds of people gathered and their curiosity got the best of them, rather than fear. They never left the venue while the execution was carried out.

Asnoralda killed her husband, and she even tried to kill her own child, Hyfitt. She also made Lais poison Sebastian in addition to making her boyfriend kill Enrico. Luckily, Sebastian survived, but even so, Asnoralda was such a cold-blooded woman. By the way, you may wonder what happened to Soledad’s husband, Alcides. He abandoned himself and died a beggar after he killed Soledad’s father.

It had been such a tragedy for Sebastian, Soledad and Oheania since Sebastian was mistakingly believed to be dead. However, they found happiness in the end, and lived happily ever after.

Thank you for reading through the plot of Rauzan. I appreciate your patience and apologize for my poor writing.

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As you may already know, Mr. Rios is in the middle of shooting “The Zorro: The Sword and the Rose (El Zorro: La Espada y La Rosa)” in Colombia. I went to an audio shop and bought DVDs of “Alain Delon in Zorro” and “The Mask of Zorro” starring Antonio Banderas with Anthony Hopkins.

Although “Alain Delon in Zorro” was produced over 30 years ago, it is still considered a masterpiece, and is especially famous for the battle scene in the last 15 minutes of the movie, which remains as one of the best climax scenes in movie history. The original story of the movie is “The Mark of Zorro”, which used to be the international bestseller, written by Johnston McCulley.

The story of “The Mask of Zorro” is quite different from the one of “Alain Delon in Zorro”. However, Mr. Rios’s role in “The Zorro: The Sword and the Rose” is the same role Anthony Hopkins played in “The Mask of Zorro”. The executive producer of “The Mask of Zorro” is Steven Spielberg. Although Mr. Rios and Mr. Hopkins play the same role (an ex-masked swordsman who tries to train his successor) details and interpretation of the role might be very different from each other.

Commonalities between the two movies are the heart-throbbing actions of the hero Zorro--a swordsman in a black mask, black sombrero and black cape who rescues people suffering under tyranny. I enjoy watching these two movies very much, and I suppose that these are particularly recommendable for men who love to watch exhilarating swordfighting.

“The Zorro: The Sword and the Rose” will be broadcast next year on Telemundo, and I truly hope that it will be broadcast in Japan, too. Could you please let me know if anyone has more information about this? Thank you!

I believe all of you know that Mr. Osvaldo is shooting the TV drama (telenovela) “Zorro: The Sword and the Rose (Zorro: La espada y la rosa)” in Columbia in Latin America. In Columbia, masterpieces such as “La Viuda de Blanco” and “Rauzan” were made, and this new one must be a big hit again.

By the way, do you know what kind of county Columbia is? I assume you know a few good things about this country, in addition to much bad news such as guerrillas and drugs reported in Japan. I visited the Columbian Embassy in Japan the other day.

The officer I met was very nice and listened to me well, and supplied me good reference materials. I learned a lot about this country from these materials. It says, “Columbia is the entrance to North and South America. It is the center of the path connecting West and East. It has coasts facing both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans”.

The land area is 2,070,408 square kilometers (about 3.1 times that of Japan). The population is 43.03 million, and the average age of the citizens is 25. It attained independence from colonial status in 1819, and its political system is a parliamentary democracy and with a presidential government. The public language is Spanish, and the weather is tropical without four seasons, but it slightly changes according to the altitude, and the temperature generally decreases 6 degrees as the altitude increases by 1,000 meters.

The currency is the Columbian Peso, the national bird is the condor, and the national flower is the orchid (cattleya).

Regional specialties include, first of all, emeralds. They are of very high quality, and were used for the crown of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and necklace of Elizabeth Taylor. Japan is the second largest importer after the US. Next is coffee. It is known as the mildest coffee in the world, and again, Japan is the second largest importer after the US.

It is not known when coffee was brought to Japan, but we know that Dutch food importers in Dejima, Nagasaki imported coffee to Japan in 1690. Japan’s first coffee house the “Kohii Sakan” opened in Ueno, Tokyo in 1888.

Music: It said that Columbians love music and sing loudly. Shakira and Juanes are popular worldwide.
Flowers: It has been only 35 years since Columbia started the flower business, and it has become the second largest fresh flower exporter in the world and established an international position. The main flower imported in Japan is the carnation.

Last year, 73% of Japan’s imported carnations came from Colombia. Colombian carnations are well known for color variations and long life. In addition, there are many beautiful women, young Montoya is performing well in Formula one racing, Gabriel García Márquez, who received the Novel Prize in literature, sold 30 million copies of his book “One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años De Soledad)”, and many other famous people have come from Columbia, but I must stop here as the list is endless.

As noted above, Columbia is a beautiful country. It is a land of hope, just like a green emerald. The TV drama (telenovela) made me feel intimate with this country. I wish happiness for Columbia.

Kei

Happy New Year! I wish good luck to all of my like-minded friends.

Thank you so much for your warm kindness extended to me last year. My website has received favorable notice from readers, the Fan Club has been gradually enriched, and I am very glad to hear your complements that you had jolly good times.

All of my success is thanks to your patronage. I forwarded Mr.
Osvaldo a Christmas greeting, and I received a reply from him with a message: “Please give all of my fans in Japan my best regards.
I’d like to give you all a sweet hug, and I’m looking forward to meeting you some day.”

The animal of the Japanese zodiac this year is a wild boar,
isn’t it? It may be impossible for me to make a headlong rush like the charge of a boar; however I’ll meet every challenge with a spirit to do my best. I will greatly appreciate your continued help.

At the beginning of the New Year, I offer a prayer from my heart for your health and for the happiness that awaits you this year.

Thank you

Kei

Heraclia was seriously distressed by the fact that Asnoralda kept blaming him for killing Lais, and he tried to shoot himself but failed to do so. Then, he decided to run away with a bag full of jewelry and money, all of which were stolen from Asnoralda. A servant happened to see Heraclia stealing Asnoralda’s belongings, and locked Heraclia in the house so that he wouldn’t escape.

Heraclia, who realized that the door was locked, became angry and smashed a window to get out of the house. However, a piece of broken glass deeply cut his thigh and severely injured him. He tried to run away, but lost a significant amount of blood in the process and died as a result.

Meanwhile, a priest was visiting Sebastian to pray for him before the execution was carried out. Sebastian was later taken outside to a scaffold which was surrounded by a crowd of people. He stood on the scaffold, a thick noose swinging back and forth in front of him. He was about to put the noose around his neck when Hyfitt and Oheania rushed to the site. They raised the stolen diary high above their heads and shouted, “We have evidence here! Listen, everyone. It is written in this diary that Asnoralda was the one pulling strings behind all these cases!” It was Rocafuerte’s diary and could be the crucial evidence for the trial.

Asnoralda decided to run away, but no matter how far or how fast she would go, she kept seeing the ghost of Rocafuerte grinning in front of her. Meanwhile, the diary was handed to the judge, and it revealed that Asnoralda had been telling lies. This evidence was credible enough to abandon the case, and instead of Sebastian, Asnoralda was found guilty and was sentenced to be burned at the stake immediately. She was arrested, forced to change into prison garb and made to stand on the scaffold. One of the police officers walked towards her with a torch in his hand. He shouted, “I am going to kill you! Go to hell! I’ll burn you to death!”

Asnoralda realized that it was Rocafuerte’s voice, but the next moment, the fire instantly spread all over her clothes and she was screaming and tossing about in excruciating pain until she died. The crowd of people watched the execution but Sebastian didn’t know about it since he was in a cell, thinking about Soledad. He was talking to Soledad in his mind, “Soledad, I’m always with you wherever you are. You are not alone. What you have to do is to think of me.” Soledad in the police buggy was also thinking about Sebastian.

After a while, Sebastian and Soledad were at last proved of their innocence and Sebastian was released from custody. Oheania was waiting for him to come out, and she threw herself into Sebastian’s arms, calling him ‘daddy’. Sebastian held his daughter and smiled. Everyone was smiling, and each of them gave Sebastian a tight hug in turn. Sebastian offered them to come to his house at Rauzan. As Sebastian returned to his house with his friends and family, he changed into a suit and served drinks to his guests, sharing joy and happiness with everyone.

Soledad, who was away from the town, went to stay at her parent’s house. Soledad’s parents had already passed away so there was no one but Soledad in the house. She was all by herself, but her friends and family came over to the house the following day and they were all grateful for the reunion. Sebastian, who was the last person to enter the house, quietly walked towards Soledad from behind and whispered in her ear, “Did anybody ask about me?” Soledad immediately turned around to see Sebastian, and they held each other tightly and kissed for a long time.

(Oheania’s monologue)
From that moment, our family started to live a different life with real friends. The story of my father was handed down for generations as the story of Caballeros de Rauzan (the Gentleman at Rauzan). I learned from my parents that true love always brings you happiness in the end.