1. Latin American Writers
However, during this decade, a literary explosion of Latin American literature took place named "The Boom." ... 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. ... Car exhaust causes about eighty percent of the thick smog around the cities. ... While there is desire for progress in Macondo, the only sources of monetary exchange are th...
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