During the 1980s, the government of Colombia signed a treaty with the United States allowing for the extradition of Colombian citizens. This caused a great deal of distress among the kingpins of the Medell??n drug cartel. Why? Traffickers like Pablo Escobar had spent the decade exporting billions of dollars worth of cocaine. They werent likely […]
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend??a was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” It is typical of Gabriel Garc??a M?rquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One […]
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs–yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at […]