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Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dead at 83

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Carlos Fuentes, who died Tuesday aged 83, was one of the Spanish-speaking world's best known writers, famous for his prolific output and his use of experimental language.President Felipe Calderon announced the writer's death in a message on his Twitter account. Local media said Fuentes had died in a hospital in the south of the Mexican capital as a result of heart problems.Arguably Mexico's best known contemporary author, Fuentes, ...