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Eyes of a Blue Dog by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Then she looked at me. I
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Gabriel G?ia M?uez Gabriel Jos?arc?M?uez was
born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, a town in Northern ...
... In his novel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez creates an imaginary town called Macondo where
the inseparability of the past, present and future becomes clearly evident. ...
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Gabriel Gárcia Márquez
Gabriel José García Márquez was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, a town in Northern Colombia, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents in a house filled with countless aunts and the rumors of ghosts. But in order to get a better grasp on García Márquez\'s life, it helps to understand something first about both the history of Colombia and the unusual background of his family.
Colombia
Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1810, technically making it one of Latin America\'s oldest democracies, but the sad fact is that this \"democracy\" has rarely known peace and justice.
In the beginning, there was of course Spain and the Indians, happily hating each other as the Spaniards tore the land up in quest for gold, El Dorado, religious converts, and political power. The English, too, played their part, with Drake attacking Riohachi in 1568 and the countless colonial squabbles of the next few centuries. Declaring itself independent from Spain when Napoleon ousted the Spanish King in 1810, the new country experienced a brief period of freedom and then was quickly reconquered in 1815 by the unpleasant and bloody campaigns of General Murillo. So much did their internal bickering allow their fledgling country to fall to the sword of Murillo, the period is immortalized in Colombia\'s history with the colorful name of la Patria Boba, or \"The Booby Fatherland.\" Round two, however, fell to the Colombians, when Simón Bolívar reliberated the country in 1820 and became its very first president. In 1849, the country was sufficiently advanced enough to concretize their squabbling in the form of two political parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, who exist to this day. These two parties form the political framework for much of García Márquez\'s fiction, and understanding their true natures is both a key to his writing and, unfortunately, an important insight to Latin American...
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