By Mark Lowe

Gabriel García Marquez, the Nobel-prize winning author who died last week, always had an ambivalent relationship with his home country, Colombia. He left for good in 1981 but would often wag the finger at his compatriots complaining once “we’re scandalized by our country’s bad image abroad, but we don’t dare admit to ourselves that the reality is worse”.

Marquez’s comments were made at a time of terrible insecurity and Colombia, so long defined by ‘three Cs’ (coffee, cocaine, conflict) has begun to reinvent itself. But it is still one of the most unfairly stereotyped nations on earth, proving Read full story ›

Source: The Drum