Early Career
He published his first article in the Méxican magazine Siempre, when he was 24 years old. A year later he was contributing at Plural magazine, and he entered the editorial staff of Octavio Paz's magazine Vuelta in 1977.
In 1988, Krauze published a famous attack in Vuelta on novelist Carlos Fuentes and his fiction, dubbing him a "guerrilla dandy" for the perceived gap between his Marxist politics and his personal lifestyle. Krauze accused Fuentes of selling out to the PRI government and being "out of touch with Mexico", distorting its people to appeal to foreign audiences: "There is the suspicion in Mexico that Fuentes merely uses Mexico as a theme, distorting it for a North American public, claiming credentials that he does not have." The essay caused a permanent rift between Paz and Fuentes, formerly close friends, that lasted until Paz's death. Following Fuentes' death, however, Krauze described him to reporters as "one of the most brilliant writers of the 20th Century".
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