“There 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.” PeopleRealityAcceptingSunGenerousTransparent Book:The old gringo Source: The old gringo
“Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact that this country produces eminent intellectuals, has great universities, and then the people who arrive in government are very mediocre. The Latin American situation has been very different in the first place, because writers have spoken for those who have no voice. The rate of illiteracy, poverty, joblessness in Latin America has been so great throughout our history that if the writers didn't speak out for the people, nobody would.” PeopleDifferentCountrySpeakQualitySituationPovertyRateLatinMediocreLatin AmericaIlliteracy Author:Carlos Fuentes
“Things have changed in Latin America now. We mostly have democratic governments in Latin America, so the position of the writer has changed. It is not as Neruda used to say, that a Latin American writer walks around with the body of his people on his back. Now, we have citizens, we have public means of expression, political parties, congress, unions. So, the writer's position has changed, we now consider ourselves to be citizens - not spokespeople for everybody - but citizens that participate in the political and social process of the country.” PeopleMeanCountryPoliticalPartyChangedDemocraticLatinPolitical PartiesLatin AmericaThings Have ChangedAmerican Writer Author:Carlos Fuentes
“The United States still thinks that Mexico is a nineteenth century industrial society. It isn't that any longer, it has to adapt to a new reality. But we have a grave responsibility in Mexico, which is to give work to our own people. As long as we have a system that denies work to 50 percent of the population, you'll have immigrants coming to the United States.” PeopleThinkingGivingLongRealityResponsibility Author:Carlos Fuentes
