What does one of Columbia’s most iconic writers have to do with its most famous drug lord?
According to a former hitman for Pablo Escobar, Nobel Prize-winning Gabriel García Márquez delivered letters from Escobar to Fidel and Raul Castro. Business Insider Australia has the scoop:
The former hit man, released in 2014 after 23 years in jail in Colombia for terrorism and narcotrafficking, backed up his claim by describing his meeting with Garcia Marquez.
“I was in Mexico carrying a letter to the Nobel Laureate for Raul and Fidel Castro; a manuscript of Escobar’s,” Popeye said.
“When I got off the plane the Mexican police were waiting for me and took me to where ‘Gabo’ was signing autographs,” he continued, according to Colombia Reports. “He called me aside and said, ‘Popeye, where is the letter?’ and I gave it to him.”