Silvia Lemus de Fuentes is a journalist and host of the interview television programme Tratos y Retratos. She is the widow of Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes. Galician in origin, Silvia was the wife and hostess for her husband, when he was Mexico's Ambassador to France. In 1972, she married Feuntes, and they travelled to France and the United States, she as a journalist and he as a scholar. The United States Central Intelligence Agency kept a file on Lemus de Fuentes and her husband because of their "Mzrxist" (sic.) associations.