Featured Author: Alberto Salcedo Ramos

Number 6

The Town that Survived a Massacre to the Sound of Bagpipes

By Alberto Salcedo Ramos

It just so happens that murderers—I suddenly realize as I walk past the tree where one of the seventy-six victims was hanged—reveal to us, at the point of the sword, the country that we know neither i...
Number 6

Macondo in the Soul

By Alberto Salcedo Ramos

The Casa del Hielo, at the corner of Barrio Boston, Aracataca. I begin the story of the real Macondo at the same point where the story of the fictional Macondo begins. Travelers from all over the worl...
Number 6

Alberto Salcedo Ramos: Popular Culture, the Colombian Chronicle, and North American Journalism: A Conversation with Luvia Estrella Morales Rodríguez

By Luvia Estrella Morales Rodríguez, Alberto Salcedo Ramos

Alberto Salcedo Ramos is intelligent, observant, and anchored in literature, as is demonstrated by this interview, which took place in Kaufman Hall, the designated building for learning modern languag...