One Hundred Years of Tranquility?
Last week, Colombia’s civil war – the sole remaining armed conflict in Latin America – formally came to an end. With any luck, the era of the mountain guerrilla, the irate demagogue in green fatigues, or the frightful general in dark glasses is over in the Americas.
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SANTIAGO – Gabriel García Márquez’s great novel One Hundred Years of Solitude starts with a colonel who “started 32 civil wars and lost them all” facing the firing squad. The site of the event is the fictional town of Macondo, but few readers are fooled: the novel is about García Márquez’s native Colombia.