Is Gabriel García Márquez, 76, Writing Fiction About His Legalization Position?
May 27, 2003 On Monday, May 19th, the whole world heard the story: Gabriel García Márquez, the famous Colombian writer, had advocated for the legalization of drugs as a solution for the conflicts generated by narco-trafficking and the Plan Colombia pushed by the United States. The daily El Colombiano, in that day’s issue, published a transcription of a presentation given by the writer – associated with the literary explosion called “magical realism” with his novels, “The Autumn of the Patriarch,” “Love in A Time of Cholera,” “A Hundred Years of Solitude,” and his novella, “No One Writes to the Colonel,” made into a 1999 motion picture starring Selma Hayek among others, and also the successful first part of his memoirs, “Living to Tell it” – through a video, sent from his residence in Mexico City, to the University of Anitoquía, in Medellín, Colombia, on the occasion of its 200 year anniversary. Various international news agencies (like the Spaniard EFE and the French AFP) covered the e
