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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

— Carlos Fuentes

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The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.

The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.

Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books."

But perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror; nature rejects that order, preferring instead to proceed with the multiple disorder of the certainty of freedom.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

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