There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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.
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
