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The man with the typewriter

The man with the typewriter

April 12, 2018

On 9 April 1948, the Colombian politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán stepped out of his office with a group of friends to walk to Bogotá’s Hotel Continental for lunch. An assassin confronted him in the street and shot him three times in the face and chest. He died shortly afterwards. His supporters caught the 20-year-old culprit, […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba, Colombia, Latin writers | 1 Response

Fidel and Gabo

Fidel and Gabo

December 17, 2017

A review of Fidel & Gabo: A portrait of a legendary friendship, by Angel Esteban and Stephanie Panichelli Two of the best-known Latin American figures of the twentieth century, Fidel Castro and Gabriel Garcia Márquez (Gabo) were close friends. This book claims to be the story of their relationship, but does it do it justice? […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Cuba, Colombia, Latin writers

Humboldt travelling towards Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador (Image: BPK/SPSG, Berlin-Brandenburg/Hermann Buresch)

The discoverer of the New World

August 30, 2016

A review of ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf On 16 July 1799 a revolutionary thinker arrived in Latin America. Unlike most Europeans who had preceded him to the continent, he didn’t believe in slavery and he promoted the rights of indigenous people. He saw mining for gold and silver for the exploitation it […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment, Book reviews | Tags: Colombia, Latin America, Venezuela, Bolivar, volcanoes, environment

Simón Bolívar: relentless ambition and flashes of brilliance. Photograph: G Dagli Orti/ De Agostini/ Getty Images

The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

February 22, 2014

I revisited this novel after reading the new biography of Simon Bolívar by Marie Arana, because after her factual description of what is known about the last weeks of Bolívar’s life, it seemed only appropriate to see them as re-imagined by García Márquez.  I would strongly recommend the combination of books for anyone interested in […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivar

Christopher Columbus 'discovers' the Americas

Utopias?

November 9, 2013

Shangri-La and El Dorado: hoped-for earthly utopias, searched for but never quite found. Last month offered glimpses of the real stories of both, through the debut of the restored version of John Noel’s 1924 film The Epic of Everest and the British Museum’s exhibition Beyond El Dorado. Though separated by almost 400 years, the searches […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Colombia

The Robber of Memories

The Robber of Memories

August 31, 2013

The Robber of Memories by Michael Jacobs, Granta, 2012. Colombia’s Magdalena River could claim to be the second most important in South America after the Amazon.  In some ways it’s more important, if a judgement hinges on the Spanish conquest and its aftermath, since the Magdalena allowed the invaders to reach the Andean regions where […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Colombia, Latin writers

Julia Torres 
photo: Ana Paola Romero

‘Don’t let them take it’

June 13, 2013

On 28 May six men, some of them armed, arrived at a farm in the Bolívar province of Colombia, called Finca Alemania, asking for Julia Torres.  A few days before, men dressed in black had been seen crossing the farm.  In rural Colombia, such warning signs are taken very seriously. Julia’s husband, Rogelio Martinez, was […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Colombia

Gabo in his labyrinth

Gabo in his labyrinth

July 7, 2012

With the recent death of Carlos Fuentes only two living writers remain from the period of ‘el boom’ in Latin America, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.

Category: Latin America | Tags: Colombia, Latin writers | 1 Response

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