Table of Contents
The Academy of Duty, Zipaquirá, Colombia, November 17, 1944
How I Began to Write, Caracas, Venezuela, May 3, 1970
Another, Different Homeland, Mexico City, October 22, 1982
The Solitude of Latin America, Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1982, Ceremony awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature
A Toast to Poetry, Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 1982
Words for a New Millennium, Havana, Cuba, November 29, 1985
The Cataclysm of Damocles, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico, August 6, 1986
An Indestructible Idea, Havana, Cuba, December 4, 1986
Preface to a New Millennium, Caracas, Venezuela, March 4, 1990
I’m Not Here, Havana, Cuba, December 8, 1992
In Honour of Belisario Betancur on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia, February 18, 1993
My Friend Mutis, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia, August 25, 1993
The Argentine who Endeared Himself to Everybody, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, February 12, 1994
Latin America Exists, Contadora, Panama, March 28, 1995
A Different Nature in a World Different from Ours, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia, April 12, 1996
Journalism: The Best Job in the World, Los Angeles, United States, October 7, 1996
A Bottle in the Ocean for the God of Words, Zacatecas, Mexico, April 7, 1997
Dreams for the Twenty-first Century, Paris, France, March 8, 1999
The Beloved Though Distant Homeland, Medellín, Colombia, May 18, 2003
A Soul Open to be Filled with Messages in Spanish, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, March 26, 2007