Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
Carlos FuentesSome writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.
Carlos FuentesThe new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
Carlos FuentesThere are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.
Carlos FuentesThe United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
Carlos Fuentes