RE: STREET MEMORIES - Street photography from Montalbán, Carabobo St., Venezuela (11 pics)

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Awww... Coincidentally, my father, an avid reader of García Márquez's works, named our house "Macondo" because Dad (who was born and raised in Caracas) thought this town was like that, like the Macondo from 100 Years of Solitude 😅... Dad arrived here when he was almost 40 years old, and he came as a supervisor for the installation of the first TV antenna stations for "Venevisión," but here he fell in love with my mother (16 years younger), they got married, and Dad never left the town again. Dad also said, "This Macondo had trapped him in his own novel." Currently, there are some old haciendas that have been converted into tour operators, and there are tourist lodges and cabins in the mountains, but the town's infrastructure is very precarious, so these are very limited development projects, but at least some here are making an effort in this way...

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3 days ago (Edited)

That is a funny coincidence!

he came as a supervisor for the installation of the first TV antenna stations for "Venevisión,"

This is just like the novels. The opening paragraph of 100 Years of Solitude goes like this:

Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.

The beginning of the modern era. It's good to hear that there is tourism in the area. It's an untapped resource in many regions of Latin America, and it'd be great to take advantage of it.

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