Wow, it looks like he really is still alive, though from the looks of it, he probably doesn't have long to live. (Of course, this could still be a "body double," not that dictators ever use those...)
In this photo courtesy of Colombia's newspaper El Tiempo, Cuba's President Fidel Castro talks to Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Havana, Monday, March 12, 2007.(AP Photo/ Courtesy El Tiempo)
Marquez has taken some heat for his unabashed Fidelismo, but his sad explanations usually boil down to "I just can't help it - it's Fidel!". Ugh. Needless to say, he'd be singing a different tune in Cuba, where his works would be cut to shreds by state censors.