The opening lines of the Netflix show Narcos are oddly prophetic, a homage to the great Gabriel Garcia Marquez who is considered the pioneer of the literary device, though Kafka or Rushdie fans could ...

There was a reason magical realism was born in Colombia. It’s fitting that the Netflix show Narcos – which focused on the ...

Born to a humble farming family near the city of Medellín in north-central Colombia, Pablo Escobar started his career committing various petty crimes. He graduated to smuggling thereafter and ...

Born into a modest farming family near Medellin in northern Colombia, Pablo Escobar started his career with petty crime but soon graduated to smuggling and eventually began carting shipments of ...