“Mexican author Carlos Fuentes entered my life with the soft insistence of a truth you recognize before you can name it. In a house where books functioned as liturgy and political arguments were my family’s daily prayer, politics and fiction braided until nationhood itself could only be discussed through story. Friends learned to avoid politics and religion in polite conversation. But at our table, it was compulsory.”
María Meléndez, Writer
Novelist and diplomat Carlos Fuentes explained the history of Mexican politics like no one else before him, weaving a narrative history filled with intrigue and insight on every page.
The world’s biggest bakery has its fingers in a lot of pies, and on the pulse of what Mexicans value most.
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It’s a sign of the times that a 23-year-old Mexico City sanitation worker can ride his talent to the same U.S. public TV stage as Sting, Gloria Estefan and Adele.
