Nuestro Patrono Carlos Fuentes, mexicano universal

MEXICO CITY.- Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon, left, stands with Silvia Lemus, right, widow of Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, next to Fuentes’ coffin during his wake in Bellas Artes Palace in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83. AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo

MEXICO CITY.- A man kneels before the flag draped casket of the late Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes during his wake in Bellas Artes Palace in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83. AP Photo/Eduardo Verduwake in Bellas Artes Palace in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Fuentes, who played a dominant role in LatiAmerica’s novel-writing boom by delving into the faileeals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83. AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo.

In this Oct. 13, 2008 file photo, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, speaks to Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, second right, as Spain’s King Juan Carlos, second left, and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, right, look on, after the Don Quijote de la Mancha international prize ceremony in Toledo, Spain. Fuentes, Mexico’s most celebrated novelist and among Latin Americas most prominent authors, died on May 15, 2012. AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File.

MEXICO CITY.- In this Friday, June 10, 1983 file photo Mexican diplomat and author Carlos Fuentes addresses Harvard University’s graduates during Commencement Exercises, in Cambridge, Mass. Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with Carlos Fuentes couldn’t help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language. Fuentes died in Mexico City Tuesday at the age of 83. AP Photo/Sean Kardon.

MEXICO CITY.- In this March 24, 2009 file photo, Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero honors Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes during the Gran Cruz Isabel La Catolica medal ceremony, one of the most important distinctions given by the Spanish government to foreign personalities, at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain. Fuentes, Mexicos most celebrated novelist and among Latin America’s most prominent authors, died on May 15, 2012. AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza.

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