BOGOTA, Colombia. – Some fifty unpublished letters from Gabriel Garcia Marquez reveal his rejection of public office, his political position in relation to the current affairs of his country and his passion and root commitment with literature.

The secrets of the lost correspondence of Garcia Marquez is the title that Colombian Blu radio station gave to the letters of the Nobel Prize of Literature sent to his personal friend Guillermo Cano, assassinated in Bogota by hitmen of Pablo Escobar.

I will not be another tie writer and I can serve my country without serving the government and without using it, Gabo confessed to Cano, then former director of El Espectador.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez worked as editor of El Espectador and collaborated with this newspaper from Europe, sending handwritten or typed letters that have just come to light and that Ana Maria Busquets, Cano´s widow kept.