To solve Turkey's culture clash, old elite must yield to free speech Nov 12, 2009
Gardels: Recently, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes and I were talking about your identification with Dostoevsky, who, in his time, was angry at the West and the Westernizers in his own country who looked down on ordinary Russians. You admired him for "waging war against shallow Occidentalists, didactic writers who were always extolling the wonders of the West.". (Christian Science Monitor)
So Did We Save the Amazon Rain Forest or What? Nov 4, 2009
Soon celebrities like Sting and crooner Phil Collins were rallying against the highway project, along with noted Latin American intellectuals: authors Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa signed a letter calling accusing the nation of a "." The ruckus temporarily stalled the project, and Brazil enacted some modest conservation measures. In 1991, deforestation slowed to one of the lowest rates on record. (Slate)
School book ban raises censorship concerns in P.R. Sep 13, 2009
Also among the banned books is the novel "Aura" by Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, one of Latin America's most prominent contemporary writers. The other four authors affected are from Puerto Rico. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Supreme Court vacates Pina conviction Jul 10, 2009
Juan Carlos Fuentes-Pina. Supreme Court vacates Pina conviction Justices remand case involving Naranjo shooting By David CooperTimes-News writer Juan Carlos Fuentes Pina, one of two men convicted for the 2005 Twin Falls slaying of Jesse Naranjo, had his conviction dropped by the Idaho Supreme Court on Wednesday, for a technicality connected with his 2006 trial. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
• High court overturns conviction in '05 shotgun slaying Jul 10, 2009
The conviction of Juan Carlos Fuentes Pina, one of two men convicted for the slaying of Jesse Naranjo, was vacated on appeal by the Idaho Supreme Court on Wednesday. The five-justice high court ruled 3-2 that a Twin Falls jury was given improper instructions by Judge Richard Bevan before deliberating on the case. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
The Myth of Gabriel Garca Mrquez May 19, 2009
But these works had not changed his life or anyone else's, and his was not a name to conjure with as those of Julio Cortzar, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa were. When he got out of the car, he was on his way to the Nobel Prize, which he won in 1982. (Slate)
