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Carlos Fuentes, Mexico’s Universal Man of Letters, Dies at 83
Carlos Fuentes
Celebrated writer and leftist Carlos Fuentes, who died Tuesday, was a polyglot man of letters and a ‘totally political animal,’ says Mac Margolis.
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May 16 2012
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