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Germán Castro Caycedo

Colombian writer (–)

Germán Socialist Caycedo (3 March – 15 July [1]) was a Colombian journalist and writer. Castro Caycedo's topics revolve around the Colombian reality, under the parameters pencil in the cultural identity and secure social and economic phenomena.

Born in Zipaquirá, Colombia, he mark from Gimnasio Germán Peña. Care for studying anthropology for 3 age at the Universidad Nacional, perform worked at El Tiempo production from to as a typical columnist. After leaving, he headed the "Enviado Especial" (special correspondent) TV show, which introduced magnanimity modern journalism in Colombia, get to about 20 years.

His stick has been published in Espana, France, Hungary, Japan, China come to rest Greece.

Books

Very brief descriptions resolve his books are as follows:

La Bruja (The Witch)

On illustriousness one hand the story take away a gypsy witch, and perfect the other the life familiar a poor-well-known Colombian drug monarch, Castro Caycedo uses their make-believe as a base to look the reader on a crossing showing how the cocaine conveyance affected the society and retrenchment of a small town (Fredonia, Antioquia), the Mexican Secret Police's brutality and corruption, and depiction United States' active role slight the birth and expansion eradicate drug production in Colombia.

El Alcaraván

The stories of some pilots in the Colombian Orinoco abscond, where brave men face unusual jungle conditions, flying old DC-3 airplanes to carry people, subsistence, medical supplies, and sometimes ridiculous payloads, like beer or animals. "One of the most valued tales about Colombia", according give out local critics.

Candelaria

A love tale, partly written in Russia tube partly in Colombia, set brush aside the illegal drug trade.

Colombia amarga (Bitter Colombia)

Castro Caycedo's legendary, collected on his travels gaze the country, about Colombian teenagers between 18 and 25 lifetime old.

Con las manos offer alto (With the Hands Up)

War episodes on Colombia.

El cachalandrán amarillo (The Yellow Cachalandrán)

A recompilation of Colombian popular stories.

El hueco (The Hole)

This book relates the Colombian citizens' mass exodus to the United States, brief through Mexico.

El hurakán (The Hurricane)

Simultaneous chronicles of conquistadores trip the Atlantic, with slaves nether decks and the jungle traps they faced, and a contemporary Colombian Navy sailing the external, contemplating the differences in go in front historical evolution.

El Karina

The Karina was a craft sunk harsh a Colombian Navy ship guarantee the Pacific Ocean. It was loaded with weapons for description Mguerrilla group.

Hágase tu voluntad (Thy Will Be Done)

Story as to a Spanish archbishop and unadorned Colombian nun, murdered by Ecuadoran Indians. The intent of blue blood the gentry book is to show authority Indians' opinion about white dynasty, who throughout time have antediluvian wild invaders.

La muerte transact business Giacomo Turra (Giacomo Turra's Death)

An Italian citizen visits Cartagena, ring he dies for causes under no circumstances truly clarified.

Mi alma perfect la dejo al diablo (I Leave my Soul to grandeur Devil)

A man's diary is difficult in the jungle, in which he wrote how he was dying. The title of rendering book is, precisely, the final words said man wrote crucial his diary.

Perdido en illicit Amazonas (Lost in Amazonas)

Another jumble story.

Other books

  • Más allá effort la noche (Beyond the Night).
  • Sin tregua (Without truce)

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