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Filming of the movie version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book, Memoria de mis Putas Tristes, has been halted in Mexico due to a lawsuit brought by The Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean that says that the film will promote pedophilia.

“As a book, it does not have access to the most vulnerable people in society,” Coalition director Teresa Ulloa told The Associated Press. “Once they make the movie, it will be in movie theaters and later it will surely be on television.”

According to the film’s co-director and producer, Ricardo del Rio, the lawsuit led to government officials in the Mexican state of Puebla withdrawing funding.

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