FBI agents tracked Gabriel García Márquez

Joe Stephens.-- Newly arrived in Manhattan with his wife and infant son, 33-year-old Gabriel García Márquez plunked down $200 for a month’s stay at the Hotel Webster and set about establishing himself as a professional writer.

He had no idea the FBI was watching.

The year was 1961, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI quietly opened a confidential dossier on the skinny, mustachioed Colombian. The file accumulated intelligence for the next 24 years, even as García Márquez became an intimate of world leaders and was awarded the Nobel Prize for his gritty and magical novels about Latin America.

The file’s existence has remained secret until now.

Muere el Gabo y ya no habrá soledad en el relato de Nuestra América [+ video e imágenes con frases]

El escritor, novelista, cuentista, guionista y periodista colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, murió este viernes a los 87 años de edad, luego de un cuadro de neumonía que lo mantuvo hospitalizado por una semana, informó teleSUR.

García Márquez, ganador del premio Nobel de Literatura en el año 1982, nació el 6 de marzo de 1927, en Aracataca, un municipio del departamento bananero de Magdalena (norte), era hijo de un telegrafista y de la hija de un coronel.