Raul Castro (L), then chief of Cuba’s army and brother of then Cuba’s President Fidel Castro, Colombian Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez (C) and Nicaraguan novelist Tomas Borge (R) attend a military parade in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution in Havana in this December 2, 2006 file photo. Garcia Marquez, the Colombian author whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map, died on April 17, 2014. He was 87. Known affectionately to friends and fans as “Gabo”, he is arguably Latin America’s best-known author and his books have sold in the tens of millions. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/Files (CUBA – Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY OBITUARY)