Carpentier wove elements of Latin American political history , music , social injustice and art into the tapestries of his writings , all of which exerted a decisive influence on the works of younger Latin American and Cuban writers like Lisandro Otero , Leonardo Padura and Fernando Velázquez Medina .
His writing influenced younger Latin American and Cuban writers like Lisandro Otero , Leonardo Padura and Fernando Velázquez Medina .