"Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books.""
— Carlos Fuentes

January 1, 1970

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About being denied a visa to the United States in the early 1960s after he praised the Cuban Revolution; as quoted by Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006