Carlos Fuentes discusses his book, "The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World." The book is about Spain's colonization of Mexico and the Western Hemisphere. He discusses Spanish culture and how it was influenced by the Moors, Jews, and Arabs. He describes the book as a biography of Mexico's culture. Fuentes explains that the title of the book was inspired by mirrors discovered in pyramids in Veracruz, Mexico. He gives credit to the Moorish and Jewish intelligentsia with the development of the Spanish language by writing the history of the period in Spanish, and not the Latin of the Catholic Church.
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