Diplomacy In A Sense Is The Opposite

Now The Masses Of Latin America Are Electing Governments They Feel Can Take Forward The Democratic Reforms Of The Last 20 Years, And Transform Them Into Social And Economic Reforms. This Is, I Think, Extremely Important, Because It Also Means That The Left Has Abandoned The Revolutionary Solution Proposed By Che Guevara And Has Taken The Democratic Path.

Writing Is A Struggle Against Silence.

Contrary To The Macho Culture Of Mexico, Both My Grandmothers Were Very Brave Young Widows. I Was Always Very Close To These Hard-working, Intelligent Women.

What's Happened At The Abu Ghraib Prison In Iraq Is One Of The Grossest Violations Of Human Rights Under The Geneva Conventions That We Have Record Of. It Is Simply Monstrous.

I Believe In Books That Do Not Go To A Ready-made Public. I'm Looking For Readers I Would Like To Make. To Win Them, To Create Readers Rather Than To Give Something That Readers Are Expecting. That Would Bore Me To Death.