Liberals vs. Conservatives.

After having written One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was able to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The book itself was written in 1967 and tells the story of the rise and fall of the civilization of Macondo and also the decline of the Buendias. As he wrote the story, Marquez was pulling several factors from his life and incorporating them into the story. One such important factor was the history of the Liberals and the Conservatives.

Marquez strongly used political outlook when writing One Hundred Years of Solitude. In the story there exists a war between Liberals and Conservatives as well as a company, known as the banana company, taking over the civilization. The conflict of Liberals and Conservatives is highly influenced by the actual conflict between Liberals and Conservatives at the time to control the government in Latin America. Liberals wished to get rid of the dominance of the catholic church, the social structure of classes, and slavery while Conservatives believed that changing the government to fit the wants of the Liberals would cause not only chaos but social disorder. This would effect Columbia's government strongly because in 1958, the National Front Regime was introduced.

The National Front Regime lasted from 1958 to 1974. The goal of The national front regime was to merge the Conservative and Liberal governments by rotating their power for 16 years. Every four years, the Conservatives and Liberals switched their power. This would also divide seats equally in the cabinet, national legislature, provincial assemblies, and municipal councils. Howver, because of a lack of adequate equal participation in the government for both parties, the National Front Regime faded out in 1974.