Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Only in the last decades of the past century have Europe and the United States begun to notice Latin American literature, by reading it through the works of Borges and García Márquez. In literature only with García Márquez, the US and Europe noticed that in Latin America there was something to read, even to imitate. Almost all of the tales in "Veinticinco cuentos Barranquilleros" unites the city of Barranquilla and its surroundings. They are not stories of authors from Barranquilla, but stories of authors who reside there, or at one point resided there. However García Márquez is not included among them. Maybe it is because he never wrote a story with Barranquilla as the background.