Articles by Antonio Castillo

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Journalism Is the Novel of Reality
Antonio Castillo – New Matilda, 12 May 2014

Reality was central to Gabriel García Márquez’s fiction, which was magically nourished by his journalism. So while much has been written about his best known works of fiction, One Hundred Years of Solitude, or Love in the Time of Cholera, many have forgotten that García Márquez was first a journalist, “the best job in the world”, as he described it.

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The Other Story of Venezuela’s Riots
Antonio Castillo – New Matilda, 3 Mar 2014

Venezuela’s opposition have never accepted defeat at the ballot box. The riots in Tachira are a sign that they can’t wait until 2015 for another legitimate tilt at power.

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CHILE’S TREMBLE
Prof. Antonio Castillo, 5 Mar 2010

Last Saturday [Feb 27 2010] Chileans suffered the worst earthquake in 50 years. With an intensity of 8.8 it was the fifth biggest in world history. The violent displacement and friction of the continental plate provoked not only a massive earth movement but also a devastating tsunami. Fishing boats dragged by waves of eight meters […]

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