Arenas himself records the time, just before the 1980 Mariel boat lift, when he watched the Nobel laureate GabrielGarciaMarquez applaud a Castro speech.
The tensions inherent in that conviction were identified by Colombian Nobel laureate GabrielGarciaMarquez, who met and travelled with Chavez before he took office for the first time.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist GabrielGarciaMarquez was proud of his personal friendship with Cuba's communist dictator Fidel Castro, propelled by long nights of drinking and philosophizing by the Caribbean Sea.