There's a free article on NPR about this:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236246186/gabriel-garcia-mar...
There's also a related story about the author at the time of his death (April 17, 2014):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606131 (160 comments)
Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87 (nytimes.com)