ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the protection and guarantee of the right to the truth in the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP in the light of the lessons learned by analyzing the efforts of García Márquez to recover the memory of the Banana Massacres in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. In the first part, we define the concept of the right to the truth and explain some of its key characteristics. We analyze the importance of One Hundred Years of Solitude as a milestone in the history of the right to the truth in the second section, and the lessons we can learn from the impact of this novel in Colombian history. In the final part, we confront the right to the truth in the Peace Agreement with the lessons that we can draw from the history of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
