Gabriel Marquez gave an example of the social and economic injustices committed in his home country, Colombia, in his Nobel Prize speech: "There have been five wars and seventeen military coups; there emerged a dictator who is carrying out, in God's name, the first Latin American ethnocide of our time. ... Those in exile near one hundred and twenty thousand."2 These problems are common throughout Latin America, a factor in creating a sense of unity because of these common concerns. ... These themes are seen in Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" and Gabriel Gar...

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