Residents of Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown, Aracataca, failed last weekend to summon the energy to change its name to Macondo — the name of the fictionalized town in which the Nobelist’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude took place. A majority of voters approved the proposal on Sunday — 3,342 locals voting for the name-change and only 250 opposing it. But 7,000 votes were needed to make the results official, according to the World Entertainment News Network.
Márquez’s Hometown Refuses to Adopt Fictional Name
Posted by Anneli Rufus at 7:12 am, Monday, June 26, 2006