esteemed writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fidel, and Clinton

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http://www.counterpunch.com/marquez05212005.html


Bearing a Secret Message from Fidel About Terrorism
My Visit to the Clinton White House


At the end of March 1998, when I had confirmed to Princeton University my literary workshop for April 25, I contacted Bill Richardson on the phone to ask him to arrange a private visit with President Clinton to discuss the Colombia situation. Richardson asked me to call him a week before my trip for the answer. A few days later I went to Havana, to get some data for a press report I'd write on the Pope's visit, when talking with Fidel I mentioned the possibility of a meeting with President Clinton.

It was there that Fidel came up with the idea of sending a confidential message on a sinister terrorist plan, which Cuba had just discovered, that could affect not only both countries but many others as well. He decided himself that it should not be a personal letter to avoid putting Clinton in the predicament of giving an answer; he preferred a written summary of our conversation on the plot and on other subjects of mutual interest. In addition to the text, he suggested two unwritten questions that I could raise with Clinton if the circumstances were propitious.

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I'll let you all read the rest of this important article by yourselves.
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Marquez is one of the few male writers I read. His work is OUTSTANDING!

(gave up reading most male fiction writers when I was 40. they wrote all the same blather)

this thread is about the terrorist, Fidel and Clinton so please don't go off on a tangent about my reading habits.
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1. I can't speak to the events in the connection you describe --

-- except the info gleened from press reports, but as for Garcia Marquez, he's a goddamned genius.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was among the lone voices who spoke forcefully in support of President Clinton when the Lewinsky matter was all over the press.

He was asked on a visit to the United States what he thought of the situation regarding Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and told reporters that Clinton's detractors were "shit-eaters," excoriating the Puritan impulse that runs through all cultures.

When one is in hot water, it ain't bad when a Nobel Prize lauriat rises and speaks in one's defense.

And on top of that, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE is a masterpiece.