Documents show FBI monitored Mexican author

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Documents show FBI monitored Mexican author
Jun 21, 9:16 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- FBI documents show that the bureau and the U.S. State Department for more than two decades kept close track of late Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, who was considered a Communist and sympathizer of Cuba's Fidel Castro.

The documents posted on the FBI's website this week show the United States denied Fuentes an entry visa at least twice in the 1960s.

In one of the memorandums Fuentes is described as "a leading Mexican communist writer."

The FBI files also show how over time the bureau changed its views about Fuentes.







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[pangaia]

1. He was called a leading Mexican 'communist' writer.

Does that mean American writers are called American "Capitalist' writers?

[Judi Lynn]

2. It surely oughta! n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

3. That might have been from J. Edgar himself

That dumb ass couldn't tell the difference between Communists (who he swore were legion) and Mafia dons (who he swore before Congress didn't exist).

[leveymg]

4. J. Edgar never read a work of fiction, except the FBI Crime Statistics, so how would he know?

But, oh yes, there were his novel romances.

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[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.

[Ash_F]

6. Gotta protect us from those dangerous writers!

God forbid brown people start reading.

pffftttt

[ReRe]

7. Carlos Fuentes

If my memory serves me (and it often doesn't) correctly, Amy Goodman interviewed Carlos Fuentes on DemocracyNow a few times (via skype.)

TPTB in the USA have that "my way or the highway" mentality. If someone sees any errors in capitalism, they are immediately assumed to be a "communist." Hell, if Jesus Himself was alive today, they would call Him a communist. If you care for your fellow man, they call you a communist. If you're an organizer, they call you a communist. And if you're a Democrat, they call you a communist.

At this point in time, with all this illegal spying on American citizens, maybe we ought to come up a name for them? Stick "Stasi" in there somewhere in the alphabet soup. Like the CISA, or the NSSA, or the FBSI. Oh yeah and the GOSP.

[msedano]

8. cops should investigate all great writers

then maybe they'd get to read something other than the sports section and license plates on "suspicious" vehicles.

some links of interest re: fuentes and U.S. mexicans. we brown people read. a lot.


http://labloga.blogspot.com/2012/05/carlos-fuentes-graciela-limon-y-mi.html

http://labloga.blogspot.com/2013/02/feb5.html


mvs

[Lugal Zaggesi]

9. Why can't Mexican writers

be more patriotic,
and create works that inspire our children ?

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. This leading Mexican Commie

endorsed PRI Presidential candidates regularly, after the Destape of course.

Having a liking for CUBA was also MEXICAN FOREIGN POLICY. (STILL IS)

So how exactly should I pretend to be surprised by this? They denied entry to a Nobel Prize laureate if memory serves and a strong advocate of civil and human rights.

By the way, I have a couple of his novels at home.. I guess MY FILE just grew... after all, "The Most Transparent Region of the Atmosphere" is told partially from the pov of ...damn revolutionaries who joined La Bola.

[blkmusclmachine]

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