Gabriel García Márquez Death: Mexican Politicians Mourn Passing of Latin America's Greatest Author

Gabriel García Marquez' death has clearly deeply impacted people around the world, including important figures in Mexican politics. Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel Laureate, passed away today after a lengthy battle with cancer. Mexico's top politicians, law makers and officials took to social media to pay their respects to the novelist and journalist born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927 and author of incredible novels like "100 Years of Solitude."

Enrique Peña Nieto took to Twitter to lament Gabriel García Marquez' passing. "In the name of Mexico, I express my sorrow for the passing of one of the greatest authors of our times: Gabriel García Márquez." The head of Peña Nieto's PRI party, César Camacho Quiroz wrote "The smell of a guava, Gabriel García Marquez would say, unites the people of Latin America; today, we are united by the grief of his loss." Former presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrote "The most beloved of authors in the world has died."

Miguel Mancera, the Mayor of Mexico City wrote on his Twitter account @ManceraMiguelMX, that García Márquez's death is a loss for our entire society. "The maste Gabriel García Márquez used to say 'Life is not what one lives, it is what one remember and how one remembers it when they tell the story." Meanwhile Rosario Robles, the Secretary of Social Development wrote that the death of García Márquez "is a tragic loss for universal literature, and quoted from "Del Amor y otros Demonios."