Newly unveiled documents reveal that the FBI spent two decades monitoring Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, fearing he was a Communist sympathetic to Cuban leader Fidel Castro.Dubbed “Mexico’s most celebrated novelist” by The Guardian, the documents reveal Fuentes was denied an entry visa to the US at least twice in the 1960s.
The FBI’s stance softened over time, though, as an internal memo from 1985 mentions his authorial status. Fuentes would eventually go on to teach at Harvard University before passing away in 2012 at age 83.
