The academy of duty (Zipaquira, Colombia, November 17, 1944)

How I began to write (Caracas, venezuela, May 3, 1970)

Because of you (Caracas, Venezuela, August 2, 1972)

Another, different homeland (Mexico City, October 22, 1982)

The solitude of Latin America (Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1982)

Ceremony awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to Gabriel Garcia-Marquez: a toast to poetry (Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 1982)

Words for a new millennium (Havana, Cuba, November 29, 1985)

The cataclysm of damocles (Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico, August 6, 1986)

An indestructible idea (Havana, Cuba, December 4, 1986)

Preface to a new millennium (Caracas, Venezuela, March 4, 1990)

I'm not here (Havana, Cuba, December 8, 1992)

In honour of Belisario Betancur on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (Santafe de Bogota, Colombia, February 18, 1993)

My friend Mutis (Santafe de Bogota, Colombia, August 25, 1993)

The Argentine who endeared himself to everybody (Mexico City, February 12, 1994)

Latin America exists (Contadora, Panama, March 28, 1995)

A different nature in a world different from ours (Santafe de Bogota, Colombia, April 12, 1996)

Journalism: the best job in the world (Los Angeles, United States, October 7, 1996)

A bottle in the ocean for the god of words (Zacatecas, Mexico, April 7, 1997)

Dreams for the twenty-first century (Paris, France, March 8, 1999)

The beloved though distant homeland (Medellin, Colombia, May 18, 2003)

A soul open to be filled with messages in Spanish (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, March 26, 2007).