On the one hand, there is the Colombia of rapid economic growth and booming foreign investment, of refurbished cities and innovative social policies. On the other hand, there is the Colombia of Gabriel García Márquez’s fictional Colonel Aureliano Buendía, who started 17 civil wars – and lost all of them.
一方面，哥伦比亚拥有高速的经济增长和繁荣的外国投资，城市面貌焕然一新，创新社会政策层出不穷。另一方面，这里是马尔克斯笔下的小说人物、掀起过17场内战并全部败绩的奥雷良诺上校的哥伦比亚。