Word: mexicans
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Politics has also been a major theme of Fuentes' literature. The Death of Artemio Cruz, his third novel, is a powerful indictment of the failures of the Mexican Revolution to bring social justice to Mexico...
...Fuentes was never a "confrontational leftist," Womack said. Instead, the novelist-diplomat is a "traditional Mexican nationalist." Fuentes was "one of the most active intellectuals" in Mexico's National Liberation Movement, an early 1960s coalition of leftists within Mexico's ruling Revolutionary Institution Party (PRI), he added...
Literature specialists emphasized that Fuentes is uniquely able to speak for all of Latin-America because, since he grew up in the family of a Mexican diplomat, he has lived in the United States, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, as well as his native Mexico...
...Mexican history, and particularly the nation's Aztec origins, form the subject matter and supply much of the imagery for Fuentes's novels. The Aztec god Quetzlcoati is a character in Terra Nostra, a fictionalized account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico that deals with events in eras ranging from feudal Spain to present-day Mexico...
Fuentes's work has also been heavily influenced by motion pictures. A movie trivia expert and a close friend of the great Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, his most recent play. Orchids in the Moonlight, tells the story of two aging Mexican movie actresses as they struggle to come to terms with their fading stardom...