FBI Treated Mexican Author and Thinker Carlos Fuentes as Communist Subversive E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press
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Carlos Fuentes, who died in 2012, was denied visas in the 1960s because US authorities regarded him as a communist subversive. (talcualdigital.com)

MEXICO CITY - The FBI and US state department closely monitored the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes for more than two decades because he was considered a communist and a sympathizer of Cuba's Fidel Castro, recently released documents show.

The documents posted on the FBI's website show the US denied Fuentes an entry visa at least twice in the 1960s. In one of the memoranda Fuentes is described as "a leading Mexican communist writer" and a "well-known Mexican novelist with long history of subversive connections".

Fuentes died in 2012 at age 83 after suffering an internal haemorrhage.

In the 170-page dossier of internal official documents and some newspaper articles, the FBI describes how it monitored Fuentes and denied him permission to enter the US for having been a member of the Mexican Communist party.

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