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  He had a strong pull to socialism, he based his novels off of real life, and said they should model the future which portrays socialism.
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  Novela
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  one hundred years of solitude
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  One hundred years of Solitude
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  Presage
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  The Year of the Plague.
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  Novela
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  Fidel Castro (Socialist Leader of Cuba), and Garcia were friends.
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  Memoir
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  He died in Mexico City, Mexico.