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...Guayasamín was a life-long leftist who, like another friend in the photos, Gabriel García Márquez, stayed loyal to Castro and his ideals until the end....
...She was manager, adviser and gatekeeper to “Gabo”, the writer and journalist beloved by the public and connected to the powerful, from Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro, to the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim,...
...Gabriel García Márquez called Cuba “the most dance-orientated society on earth”. Cubans dance with fluid elegance. They swim through their music....
...Subsequently photographed with Presidents François Mitterrand, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and (not least) Fidel Castro, he was now a wealthy man with seven homes in five countries....
...Marquez says restrictions on crop growth have fallen away....
...Gabriel García Márquez, the revered Colombian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, and once described by Fidel Castro as “the most powerful man in Latin America,” died at the age of...
...A well-known leftwinger, who was close to Cuba’s Fidel Castro, García Márquez was the master of magical realism – a blend of everyday Latin American realities and fantastical elements....
...Mr Chávez, his protégé, is only 58 years old, and still with a body that looks like “packed concrete,” as Gabriel García Márquez put it. But even he is now contemplating succession....
...Hugo Chávez, his ideological son, is only 58-years old (and with a body that still looks like “packed concrete,” as Gabriel García Márquez once put it)....
...“It is newspaper policy,” says Fidel Cano, El Espectador’s editor and the nephew of Don Guillermo – one sign of editorial continuity under its new owners....
...Indeed, while once considered by many to be a communist and a supporter of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, he was also known for his criticism of the left....
...He also reserved plenty of criticism for the left, growing disenchanted with Fidel Castro’s vision for Cuba and labelling Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, “a tropical Mussolini”....
...García Márquez, even amid the twilight of the Cuban revolution, remains if not an apologist for Fidel Castro, a faithful friend....
...Like García Márquez, Mr Vargas Llosa started out as a supporter of leftist leaders such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro....
...Like many of his Latin American contemporaries, including Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez, he was an early supporter of left-wing regimes such as Fidel Castro’s, in Cuba....
...Mr Chávez, who takes advice from his ally Fidel Castro, saw all this coming long ago....
...seen it all, sat in their rocking-chairs, swaying back and forth on their verandahs, remembering how privation and oppression during the Batista years had been replaced by oppression and privation under Fidel...
...What fun for Gabriel Garcia Marquez to bask in Fidel Castro’s sun. How nice for all the worshippers of Mao to have made their pilgrimages to Beijing, even as millions were dying....
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