Originally published as a fourteen consecutive day series of installments in El Espectador newspaper in 1955 and then as a book in 1970, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor relates the story of Luis Alejandro Velasco, a shipwrecked sailor who nearly died on account of negligence by the Colombian Navy. Several of his colleagues drowned shortly before arriving at the port of Cartagena de Indias due to the existence of overweight contraband aboard the...