Her Excellency Doña Silvia Lemus de Fuentes is a journalist

Journalist

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 and host of the interview television programme Tratos y Retratos. She is married to Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...

. Galician

Galician people

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 in origin, Silvia is strongly attached to Mexico and has been known to promote the country abroad, first as Ambassadress of Mexico to France

France

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 and the United States

United States

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 with her husband, and more recently supporting events hosted by the Mexican Embassy in the United Kingdom.

Together, Carlos and Silvia had two children, Carlos

Carlos Fuentes Lemus

Carlos Fuentes Lemus was a Mexican writer, photographer, painter and director. He was the son of famous Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes and interviewer Silvia Lemus.-Life:...

 and Natasha, both deceased in their 20s. Silvia and her husband then founded the "Carlos y Natasha Fuentes Lemus Foundation"http://diario.elmercurio.cl/detalle/index.asp?id=%7B01ec036c-f5ba-49f6-906a-b4a7c7ae7de1%7D. They now live in London, but spend part of the year traveling between New York, Mexico and Europe.

Silvia gained recognition when she started Tratos y Retratos; Beyond the fame, there is a human beinghttp://www.cuny.tv/series/tratos/index.lasso, an internationally acclaimed television show in which she interviews her friends and other famous artists and intellectuals. Amongst the interviewees are Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...

, Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...

, José Saramago

José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...

, Salman Rushdie, Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo is a Colombian figurative artist. His works feature a figurative style, called by some "Boterismo", which gives them an unmistakable identity...

, Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...

, Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...

, Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

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, Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas

José Antonio Domínguez Banderas , better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer...

, Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts , which have been commercially successful...

 and Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow

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, as well as her husband long time friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...

. There are 52 programs in all, traveling through the diversity of peoples, geographies, scenarios, periods, times and cultureshttp://www.cuny.tv/series/tratos/index.lasso.

Silvia is commonly seen in tabloid publications in the company of celebrated figureshttp://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/17836/print, such as King Juan Carlos of Spain and Hillary Clinton. More recently she was seen at the wedding of HRH The Crown Prince Felipe of Spain

Felipe, Prince of Asturias

Felipe, Prince of Asturias de Borbón y de Grecia; born 30 January 1968), is the third child and only son of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía of Spain....

 http://google.com/search?q=cache:3B2HV2QNMhAJ:www.casareal.es/boda/info/InvitadosCatedral.pdf+Duque+de+Santangelo&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk. She is also spotted with her husband at his academic talks and at ambassadorial events to promote Mexico

Mexico

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 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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and abroad.