surfaced in La Jornada, a Mexican newspaper, on García Márquez’s eightieth birthday. La Jornada published a photo revealing García Márquez with a black eye, which had never been published prior and had been hanging on the home wall of the photographer’s friend for thirty one years.
The photo of García Márquez was captured two days after Mario Vargas Llosa gave the author a black eye. The fight is said to have been the result