The promotion of the character who inspired El coronel no tiene quien le escriba of the 1982 Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was not granted by a Colombian court, who denied a judicial action interposed for that purpose, the press in Bogotá announced. Nicolás Márquez Mejía, maternal grandfather of the writer, and who inspired this novel, waited for more than fifteen years for a letter that confirmed his military pension, but now he will continue without the official payment and without promotion.