Posted on 04/19/2014 12:28:33 PM PDT by Dqban22
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 in the case of the late Gabriel García Márquez. He put his pen at the service of the tyranny of Fidel Castro, supporting torture, the concentration camps, and the murdering by firing squads whoever dares to oppose the communist regime.
He used to say that the only country in the Americas that respected human rights was Cuba.
I remember that many years ago, I helped with the rescue of a lady who was the personal Secretary of Garcia Marquez in Cuba; she was hiding from the police in Colombia because they wanted to return her to Havana.
The current Commissioner and then Mayor Xavier Suarez accompanied me to the airport to welcome her.
She told us how the life of the Colombian writer in Cuba was. Garcia Marquez lived in a House of Protocol with Blanquita, his teenage lover, who was young enough to be his granddaughter, we saw the pictures. Marquez had a white Mercedes Benz, also gift of the dictator, and privileges in exchange for defending the Cuban dictatorship and defending his friend Fidel Castro, while the Nobel Prize winner was ripping his robes denouncing Pinochet.
Garcia Marquez became an informer of Castro’s political police. Many years ago, back in Havana, dissident and activist for the human rights, Ricardo Bofill, with help of the then-reporter for the agency Reuters, Collin McSevengy, he managed to enter to the hotel where García Márquez was taking a few shots. In a quiet corner, with absolute discretion, Bofill gave García Márquez a series of documents and reports on the situation of several intellectuals in Cuba.
A few weeks later when the policy police arrested Ricardo Bofill, there, open on the table of the interrogator were the documents which he had been delivered to Garcia Marquez.
On October 13, 1968 newspaper ABC and Diario 16 in Madrid, Spain, published the complaint sent by Bofill relating these facts and pointed out that: "the denouncement of García Márquez conduced to the imprisonment of numerous writers and artists" (Textual). García Márquez, the courtesan of Castro - as called for by Vargas Llosa – and a sneak, added I.
Some of his friends and defenders have said that he interceded for my freedom. This is ABSOLUTELY untrue - All a falsehood. I have enough moral honesty (which he had not) to have accepted it if it had been true. This version was a maneuver of his buddies, to capitalize on his behalf, the international sympathy that produced my release. What he did was use the Nobel Prize ceremony, to repeat accusations of Castro against me, which prompted a strong critical letter of the French Pen Club in which I had been adopted as an honorary member.
If Garcia Marquez had attained freedom and departure from Cuba of a political prisoner, it was a snitch like him who betrayed ninety-nine of his co-conspirators, and who was the leader of the MRP, the despicable Reynold González.
García Márquez supported the torture, the shootings, and the murders of my companions in the prisons... If I were a devote Christian, I would have to say: that the Lord receive it in his arms...! but as I'm not, as I do not reach that level of spiritual perfection, I want him to be eternally in the hell pots.
Describing his incarceration at United Nations Human Right Commission in Geneva, Valladares wrote:
"For me, it meant 8,000 days of hunger, of systematic beatings, of hard labor, of solitary confinement and solitude, 8,000 days of struggling to prove that I was a human being, 8,000 days of proving that my spirit could triumph over exhaustion and pain, 8,000 days of testing my religious convictions, my faith, of fighting the hate my atheist jailers were trying to instill in me with each bayonet thrust, fighting so that hate would not flourish in my heart, 8,000 days of struggling so that I would not become like them."
Gabriel Marquez was similar to Izzy Stone & Howard Zinn; never met a communist thug he didn’t like.
Intellectuals are that way; they admire commies for doing in fact what they the academicians can only dream & write about. When the dictator reciprocates with the red carpet treatment, the incestuous cycle is complete.
Not really dated and still applicable: “Political Pilgrims”, Paul Hollander, 1980.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dies: Can Fidel be far behind?
By Carlos Eire, on April 17, 2014,
http://babalublog.com/2014/04/17/gabriel-garcia-marquez-dies-can-fidel-be-far-behind/
FIDEL’S CHUM GABO KICKS THE BUCKET
Ding dong the cretin’s dead. Estiró la pata, as Cubans used to say.
He was a great novelist, but a despicable human being.
Anyone who counts Fidel Castro as a close friend has to be a moral monster, a degenerate, and among the most despicable of human beings.
In addition to being Fidel’s pal, Gabo also gave us “Lateeen-ohs” a reputation for being nonsensical and less than rational. His so-called “magical realism” pegged us all as totally out of touch with reality, and tagged us as noble savages — endearing, perhaps, but also annoyingly savage and inferior to rational North Americans and Europeans.
Good riddance. Too bad he didn’t have a suicide pact with his friend Fidel and the little brother who is now running the Castro Kingdom.
And here is what the New York Times had to say. See below. Notice that — as always — this equally despicable newspaper applies the label “right wing dictator” to Augusto Pinochet, but fails to mention that Fidel Castro falls into the same category on the left.
Here’s a question for the obituary editor at the New York Times: if Gabo had loved Pinochet would you even be mentioning his passing? Or what if he had admired Hitler?
Bastards. Cabrones. And do they care that Christ died for their sins. ...
Like many Latin American intellectuals and artists, Mr. García Márquez felt impelled to speak out on the political issues of his day. He viewed the world from a left-wing perspective, bitterly opposing Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the right-wing Chilean dictator, and unswervingly supporting Fidel Castro in Cuba. Mr. Castro became such a close friend that Mr. García Márquez showed him drafts of his unpublished books.
Carlos M. N. Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe.
Prolific author, his memoir of the Cuban Revolution, Waiting for Snow in Havana (Free Press, 2003), won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction[1] and has been translated into many languages. A second memoir, “Learning to Die in Miami” (November 2010) focuses on the early years of his exile in the United States.
That’s why he’s being glorified.
It was Gen. Pinochet who overthrew the leftwinger Allende who nearly ruined the country but has been indeed canonized by liberals only was he killed or did he commit suicide with that souvenir AK-47 that Castro had presented him?
Chile’s a lot better place since & that is Pinochet’s legacy. I think he is honored in his country as a true Chilean patriot.
thanks
that article needed to have its light shed here
By Elizabeth Llorente
Published April 18, 2014
Fox News Latino
Many lavished praise upon Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, who died Thursday at the age of 87, recalling his mark on the literary world and how he bolstered Latin American works.
But others reacted with bitterness and condemnation over the Nobel laureate who was vocal and adamant about his disdain for the U.S. government and his fondness for Cuban leader Fidel Castro, with whom he enjoyed a close friendship.
Detractors posted quotes by García Márquez, a self-styled socialist, expressing admiration for Castro, and affection for the Communist leader he depicted as a gentle soul.
You remember what Camus wrote, that a very intelligent man in some areas can be stupid in others. In politics, intellectuals have been very stupid in many, many cases.- Mario Vargas Llosa, speaking about Gabriel Garcia Marquez's fondness for Fidel Castro
“Here's hoping that Fidel Castro and #GabrielGarciaMarquez are soon reunited,” tweeted Tony Hernandez, co-founder of the Immigrant Archive Project and president of the Latino Broadcasting Company. “While the world mourns a literary great, I recall a Communist who defended the indefensible abuses of Fidel Castro. #GabrielGarciaMarquez”
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos tweeted: “The most difficult thing to understand about García Márquez was his friendship and support of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.”
Israel Abreu, a New Jersey accountant who was a political prisoner in Cuba, wrote “Gabriel García Márquez is dead, but I am not sad.”
“Many today say ‘All Latin America is sad,’ but I cannot possibly be because García Márquez tried to help with his fame the tyranny of Fidel Castro to be seen around the world as a humanitarian government,” Abreu wrote in Spanish, “thus obscuring the thousands of executed, the hundreds of thousands of dissidents jailed, and the millions of displaced people. I cannot accept that various accomplishments should negate the tight bond that Gabo had with such an ironclad tyranny.”
García Márquez countered he had worked behind the scenes to secure the release of jailed Cuban dissidents, and had served as an intermediary between Castro and President Bill Clinton, with whom he also enjoyed a friendship.
The United States, though, did not look kindly upon his friendship with Castro and his rants against “U.S. imperialism,” and denied the Colombian writer a visa to travel to here for more than three decades.
García Márquez met Fidel Castro shortly after the bearded revolutionary took power in 1959.
The relationship grew so close that the writer even had a house in Cuba, and would send Castro drafts of his work.
In 2003, Castro wrote about García Márquez: “I have always received from Gabo pages that he is still working on, with that generous and simple gesture with which he always sent me - and other people whom he appreciates very much - the preliminary drafts of his books, as proof of our old and affectionate friendship.”
Castro went on to describe the writer as “a man of cosmic talent with the generosity of a child, a man for tomorrow, and we thank him for having lived that life in order to tell it.”
His friendship with Castro even was derided by fellow writer, Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, who had a falling out with García Márquez over various issues and termed him “a courtesan of Fidel Castro” who turned a blind eye to abuses the Cuban leader committed against dissidents.
In an interview with The Daily Beast last year, Vargas Llosa addressed the comment about García Márquez by saying: “You remember what Camus wrote, that a very intelligent man in some areas can be stupid in others.”
“In politics, intellectuals have been very stupid in many, many cases. They don’t like mediocrity. And democracy is an indication of mediocrity; democracy is to accept that perfection doesn’t exist in political reality.” the rest of the article
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/04/18/amid-praise-for-gabriel-garcia-marquez-criticism-over-his-bond-with-fidel/
“All the tyrannies have one of those intellectuals at their service, to think and to write, to justify, mitigate, and disguise; or many of them, because literature is typically coupled with an appetite for luxury, and with this appetite, comes the desire for one to sell himself to whom may satisfy his appetite. The intelligent rascal frequently sells his tongue or his pen for a house with a car and a bag of money for a mistress.” José Martí
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