Fidel and Gabo: The
most important Latin Americans of the 20th century
MEXICO
CITY, October 26. — British essayist Gerald Martin
stated on Monday in Mexico that the leader of the
Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and Colombian writer
Gabriel García Márquez are, in their respective
spheres of influences, the two most important Latin
American figures of the 20th century.
"Castro is, without a doubt, the most influential
Latin American politician of the 20th century in the
world," Martin said. He added: "Whatever you think
about García Márquez, there is no more famous and
well-known Latin American writer in Latin America
and in the rest of the world."
According to EFE, the British intellectual
admitted in an interview in Mexico broadcast by MVS
Station before presenting his biography of the 1982
winner of the Nobel Literature Prize that it is very
difficult to summarize the long relationship between
García Márquez and Fidel.
Martin stated that in some way the profound
friendship between Fidel and the author of the
outstanding universal novel, One Hundred Years Of
Solitude, was something natural, and that they
also shared many affinities and points of view about
different subjects, among them affection toward
children.
Gerald Martin is a British literary critic,
professor emeritus of Modern Languages at the
University of Pittsburg, and president of the
International Institute of Ibero-American Literature.
Translated by Granma International
