Colombia has three world famous icons: Shakira, probably the world’s sexiest pop star and singer of the World Cup 2010 anthem, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the magic realism’s novel One Hunded Years of Solitude, which led him to the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1972, and Antanas Mockus, the Lithuanian-origin Amish-style-bearded eccentric mathematician and philosopher, former rector of the National University of Colombia, and two-term mayor of Bogota.