For a country within reach of children

With this beautiful and suggestive title, the Nobel Prize winner for literature Gabriel García Márquez recorded the analysis that he wrote about the Colombian man a few years ago to preface the report of the so-called commission of wise men to the Mission of Science, Education and Development of Colombia. In this inspired text, the writer makes a new reading of the history of his country, from the Colony to the formation of its current identity, subtly revealing the keys to its future and facing the challenge of rebuilding, with the tools of knowledge and knowledge, a more harmonious and happy way of life: a country within the reach of its children. And by suggesting this new direction for his homeland, García Márquez invokes the formidable human potential that it has, which, the writer trusts, will allow him to look with hope toward the future, no matter how dark the outlook may be today. Accompanied by a beautiful photographic display, this document represents, for Colombia, an unsurpassed and irreplaceable navigation chart.