Noted Mexican novelist scoffs at need for fences - Carlos Fuentes

In a talk titled “Globalization: A New Deal for a New Age,” one of Latin America’s best-known voices predicted yesterday that “frontiers are going to be erased and new communities are going to rise up” that transcend existing borders.

Addressing a binational audience of more than 800 at the University of California San Diego, Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican novelist, essayist and former diplomat, said fences do not deter migration.”*

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