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...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....
...Fidel Castro had been in power in Cuba since 1959, but the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998 marked the first real change....
...Yet intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Mario Vargas Llosa broke with Havana from the late 1960s onwards over increasing repression and censorship....
...Latin American novelists like Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes; British writers such as Harold Pinter and Anthony Sampson; and, at one 1982 dinner, the Iron Lady herself....
...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 was showered with acclaim but, unlike García Márquez and Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize for literature eluded him....
...Besides the neo-nazis and a Stalinist communist party there is Syriza, whose leader is a fan of Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez....
...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....
...Ariel Vargas, Venezuelan Embassy charge d’affaires, told reporters outside the embassy in Tegucigalpa that the expulsion order “does not exist for us, because the Micheletti government does not exist....
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