Macondo/Aracataca.

The people of Aracataca, the hometown of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, had a vote on whether to change the town's name to Macondo, the name of the town in the nobelist's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Ninety-three percent of the votes were yes, so the measure failed.

''The problem here is that people long ago grew accustomed to receiving money and gifts in exchange for votes."