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Article: Novelist Garcia Marquez's birthplace to vote on adding his fictional "Macondo" to its name
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- January 12, 2006
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JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-12-2006
Dateline: ARACATACA, Colombia
"Welcome to the magical world of Macondo," reads a giant billboard outside Aracataca, the down-on-its-heels town surrounded by banana plantations where Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born.
Macondo, as Garcia Marquez fans well know, is the fictitious tropical hamlet made famous the world over in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the Nobel Prize laureate's masterwork.
Now Macondo and the author's birthplace near Colombia's Caribbean coast may become forever joined. To revert a half-century of economic decline, town leaders want to cash in on their favorite son's international fame and change the town's ...
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