Remembering Mexican Writer Carlos Fuentes

The World

Mexico is mourning the death of Carlos Fuentes, one of its greatest writers.

Fuentes died Tuesday. He was 83.

Wednesday, he was honored at a ceremony in Mexico City’s National Palace of the Arts.

Fuentes was known throughout the world for his novels, many of them critical of modern-day Mexico.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Julio Ortega, a friend and biographer of Fuentes, about his role in Mexico as a public intellectual.

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