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mario escobar it has become a magnifying glass detective and historical archive. His latest works have been proposed to fictionalize events set aside in a swipe from our past and revive forgotten characters. And it doesn’t fail. The last character he has sketched with his pen has been Beatriz de Bobadilla (1462-1504), whose life he has fictionalized in ‘The Governor’ (La Esfera). Without mincing words, the career historian and writer at heart reminds ABC that ‘The huntress’, as they called her, had an alleged ‘affair’ with Fernando el Católico and another with Christopher Columbus. “They said she was a nymphomaniac,” she reveals. Although she insists that, as striking as these data are, she was also in charge of the Canary Islands as governor after the death of her husband.