marquez was friends with president clinton 0 who sent his praise, saying i was amazed by his gifts of imagination, clarity of thought. and president obama said as a representative and voice for the people of the americas, and as a master of the magic realism genre, he has inspired so many others, marquez was a long-time friend of fidel castro, which led to criminal confusion and controversy. he said they mostly spoke of culture, though marquez says he was able to use the relationship to free several political prisoners from cuban jails, if literature can have a people's champ then marquez was it. he came from the bottom and rose to the top of literature, by spinning latin american lives and stories into gold. his pen changed the world and in 1,000 years if humans are still on this planet, some will still be reading marquez. that does it for "the cycle"