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 Entertainment | Books | April 2008 
Noted Mexican Novelist Scoffs at Need for Fences
 Sandra Dibble - San Diego Union-Tribune
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San Diego – In a talk titled “Globalization: A New Deal for a New Age,” one of Latin America's best-known voices predicted yesterday that “frontiers are going to be erased and new communities are going to rise up” that transcend existing borders.
Addressing a binational audience of more than 800 at the University of California San Diego, Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican novelist, essayist and former diplomat, said fences do not deter migration.
“The walls will come tumbling down. They are simply a response of fear. They are a demagogic political response that has nothing to do with the reality of the need for work,” Fuentes said.
Fuentes, who will turn 80 this year, invoked the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as he called for a “new New Deal of global governance that must begin like Roosevelt and the American people did from the bottom up.”
Fuentes has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration. Asked yesterday which of the three leading U.S. presidential candidates he would support, he said “anyone would be better than Bush.”
Today, Fuentes is scheduled to meet with undergraduate honors students from Revelle College.
Fuentes' visit is sponsored by UCSD and the Mexican Consulate in San Diego.
Sandra Dibble: sandra.dibble@uniontrib.com |
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