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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez—Castro Propagandist & Police Snitch Posted By Humberto Fontova On April 24, 2014 @ 12:30 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage The eulogies to Nobel-winning author Gabriel Garcia-Marquez upon his death last week make two points official: 1.) No amount of moral and intellectual wretchedness will earn an artist even the mildest rebuke from most of his professional peers and their related institutions—so long as the wretch hires out to communists. 2.) The masochism (to sidestep more “Mc Carthyite” terms) of Democratic U.S. Presidents is boundless. Not that the media eulogies sidestep Garcia-Marquez’ politics. Most are quite upfront about it. Let’s...

Reinaldo Arenas on Gabo: Gabriel García Márquez: ¿Esbirro o es burro? (Tool or fool?) By Alberto de la Cruz, on April 21, 2014 The following is a translation by Asombra of a text by the highly acclaimed Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. It was initially written in 1981 in New York City and published in Mexico (Kosmos; 1986) and in Miami (Ediciones Universal; 2001) as part of the book Necesidad de libertad--Grito luego existo. A special thanks to our good friend Zoé Valdés for finding this gem. _____________________ GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: ¿ESBIRRO O ES bURRO? (Toll or Fool? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--eHyNjI-4a0/UXc42zoM4lI/AAAAAAAABtA/NyvpwVPHfsM/s1600/reinaldo+arenas.jpg Reinaldo Arenas...

GARCIA MARQUEZ, SNEAK AND AN ACCOMPLICE TO THE CRIMES OF FIDEL CASTRO By Armando Valladares April 18, Nuevo Accion http://www.nuevoaccion.com/ (Translation from Spanish) All dictators and murderers have had staunch defenders; Stalin, Hitler and Fidel Castro. Perhaps the most heinous in that fauna supporting dictatorships, are writers, poets, and artists. I've been saying for decades that an honest intellectual has a commitment to society: telling the truth, fight for respect, for human dignity, and not to use the privilege to reach millions of people, to lie, and to skip over the historical reality. This is one of the biggest crimes...

Nobel literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez returned to his Mexico City home on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, after a week-long hospitalisation for a lung infection, but officials said he remains in "delicate" condition.

She lives in the pages of her books. Model-actress Nethra Raghuraman, who hit the screen in 1999 with Govind Nihalani's Takshak, says her role model is the rebel architect Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's bestseller The Fountainhead who built skyscrapers in the US 75 years ago. "I want to be like Howard Roark - he is an epitome of a person who has no malice towards anyone, no hatred. He loves his work and loves his woman. I want to have a love like him, which demands possession and ownership," Nethra told IANS, when queried about her other big love...

Vargas Llosa on Friday took a swipe at the Colombian Nobel Literature Prize winner and longtime friend of the Cuban leader, calling him "a writer who is a courtesan of Fidel Castro, whom the dictatorship holds up as an intellectual alibi." "And he so far has come to accept very well all the abuses, the trampling of human rights that the Cuban dictatorship has committed, saying that secretly he helps some political prisoners get released," the Peruvian-born Vargas Llosa told Caracol radio. "It is no secret to anyone that Fidel Castro hands over some political prisoners to his courtesans once...

BOGOTA (AFP) - Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a friend of Fidel Castro, condemned the death penalty "anywhere and for any reason," in reply to US writer Susan Sontag, who said she was troubled that the Colombian writer had not condemned recent executions in Cuba. The Colombian writer, who won the 1982 Nobel prize for literature, and the Cuban revolutionary have been friends for years. Sontag, on a visit to Bogota's book fair, Sunday said that while she admired Garcia Marquez as an author, it did not seem correct to her that he had not spoken out after Cuba executed...