I haven’t always got on well with Gabo. I first met him via the obligatory reading of “Cronica de una muerte anunciada” when I started on my Spanish and Latin American Studies course at the then Polytechnic of London at the end of the 1980s.   Jake Lagnado   There […]

The Nazis did not invent euthanasia. They copied it from liberal eugenicists in Britain, America and Scandinavia. These liberals were motivated by humanitarian desires to help people with lives that were considered not worth living.   Steve Latham   In a strange irony the issue of euthanasia was recently raised […]

Gabo – the author of “One hundred years of solitude” and successor of Cervantes in our language, who was denied a visa to find work in Cartagena de Indias because the land was dying of hunger – never would have imagined that his book would reach Cuba clandestinely by plane. […]