Carlos Fuentes: Mario Vargas Llosa

President Felipe Calderon Dept: A message on President Felipe Calderon's Twitter account said I deeply lament the death of our beloved and admired Carlos Fuentes, a universal Mexican writer. , according to Globe and Mail. His generation of writers, including Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, drew global readership and attention to Latin American culture during a period when strongmen ruled much of the region and mexican media reported Mr. Fuentes died at the Angeles del Pedregal hospital, where he was being treated for heart problems. The loss was immediately mourned worldwide via Twitter and across Mexican airwaves. The prolific Mr. Fuentes wrote his first novel, Where the Air is Clear, at age 29, laying the foundation for a boom in Spanish contemporary literature during the 1960s and 1970s. He published an essay on the change of power in France in the newspaper Reforma on Tuesday, the same day he died. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.