* Two of Latin America’s greatest icons of the present century together. It’s a great pic indeed. This is what Marquez wrote about Castro on the latter’s 80th birthday. Their mutual admiration is no secret.
"Fidel Castro is there to win.
His attitude in the face of
defeat, even in the most minimal actions of everyday
life, would seem to obey a private logic: he does
not even admit
it, and does not have a minute's peace
until he succeeds in
inverting the terms and converting
it into victory."
* And what an irony?
while the West admires the Nobel Laureate and the writer par excellence; it
abhors the very mention of the revolutionary leader who overthrew the Cuban
dictator, Batista in 1959 and became dictator himself, forcing hundreds of
Cubans to go into exile.
