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...part of a generation [of Latin American intellectuals] that came to literary and political maturity in the context of the Cuban Revolution and U.S. hostility to it." Womack also noted that the American Central Intelligence Agency once suspected Fuentes of being a Soviet agent and denied him a visa to enter the U.S. during the 1960s...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: A Look at Carlos Fuentes | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

State Department officials commented only that the visa was "under consideration...

Author: By Mary C. Warner, | Title: State Dept. Stalls Nicaraguan's Visa | 4/30/1983 | See Source »

Thomas Borge, the Nicaraguan Minister of the Interior and second in command of the People's Army, applied for a visa in late March after receiving invitations from the Law School, the Business School, and more than 20 other American universities and organizations. But the State Department has yet to approve the request, and an official in the Nicaraguan Embassay in Washington yesterday charged that they were deliberately stalling...

Author: By Mary C. Warner, | Title: State Dept. Stalls Nicaraguan's Visa | 4/30/1983 | See Source »

...alleged squabble over the visa may stem from the Reagan Administration's recent attempts to curb what it has called increasing Communist infiltration in Latin America. In a speech before Congress on Wednesday. Reagan termed the Sandinist government a "new dictatorship...

Author: By Mary C. Warner, | Title: State Dept. Stalls Nicaraguan's Visa | 4/30/1983 | See Source »

...Pentecostal practices forbid them to serve in the army, while their devoutness prompted them to withdraw their children from atheistic state schooling. Moreover, ever since Lidiya, her four relatives and two neighbors dashed into the U.S. embassy, the conflict has become more complicated. The Soviets promised to consider their visa applications only if all seven returned to their native city of Chernogorsk in southern Siberia and applied through normal channels. Fearing reprisals, the seven had steadfastly refused to leave the embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Freedom Flight | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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