Mr. President - “Bon Voyage, Mr. President”
He is a former president from a Caribbean state who revisits “Geneva after two world wars, in search of a definitive answer to a pain that the doctors in Martinique could not identify.” He is no longer dominant, and he habitually adopts an incognito guise and lives meagerly.
Homero Rey De la Casa - “Bon Voyage, Mr. President”
He is the ‘ambulance driver’ who trails down Mr. President with the intent of vending him an interment indemnity.
Lazara Davis - “Bon Voyage, Mr. President”
She is Homero’s realistic spouse who cooks for and hosts Mr. President with the intent of inducing him to procure the funeral insurance.
Margarito Duarte - “The Saint”
He is the subject who bears a resemblance to a Roman; Gabriel Garcia Marquez finds it problematical to distinguish him initially.
Margarito Duarte’s daughter - “The Saint”
She is departed and her body proffers signals of sainthood because of its intactness it endorses eleven years after her entombment.
