Fidel Castro has a book review for the autobiography of his good friend, "Gabo" Garcia Marquez.
Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University, points out that Castro's theory of language may not be so different from his approach to politics. Castro writes: "He [GM] and I share a scandalous theory on the relativity of words in language. Also, as a public man obliged to write speeches and narrate events, I agree with the illustrious writer on the delight of finding the exact word - a kind of shared and inexhaustible obsession - until the phrase fits our criteria. Above all, I admire the fact that when an exact word doesn't exist, he calmly invents one. How I admire that licence of his!"
(Via The Volokh Conspiracy)
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