Remembering Mexican Writer Carlos Fuentes

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Mexico is mourning the death of Carlos Fuentes, one of its greatest writers. Fuentes died Tuesday. He was 83. Wednesday, he was honored at a ceremony in Mexico City's National Palace of the Arts. Fuentes was known throughout the world for his novels, many of them critical of modern-day Mexico. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Julio Ortega, a friend and biographer of Fuentes, about his role in Mexico as a public intellectual.
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