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Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Novelist, Dies At 83

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Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's most eloquent and widely read authors and a fierce critic of governments, has died after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83.
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"On the Road"

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Vladimir Putin

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