Background Nobel Laureate Gabriel "Gabo" García Márquez was born in the municipality of Aracataca, in Colombia's Department of Magdalena in the spring of 1927 (Martin 12). ... Major Themes Politics and the Fate of Nations: In writing The General in His Labyrinth Marquez allows himself the use of the novel as a vehicle for his own political views in respect to Latin America and its treatment by the World. ... " Similarly Marquez implored in his own speech, "Europe would be more perceptive if it tried to see Latin America in its own past. ... Garcia Marquez woul...

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