Tag: Mario Vargas Llosa

• Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

  Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Vargas Llosa dies aged 89

  

  Peruvian writer and former Presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa passed away Sunday in Lima at the age of 89, his son Álvaro announced. He wrote over 20 novels, the first one appearing in 1959. In 2010, he was awarded the Literature Nobel Prize in Literature. Vargas Llosa was also a journalist, essayist, and university professor.

• Monday, November 16th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Chaos in Peru: interim president resigns following massive protests and police brutality

  

  Peru’s interim president resigned on Sunday as the nation plunged into its worst constitutional crisis in two decades following massive protests unleashed when Congress ousted the nation’s popular leader.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Beijing furious with Vargas Llosa for saying combating the coronavirus outbreak would be different if China was a democracy

  

  China hit out on Monday at Peru's Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa for allegedly expressing “irresponsible and prejudiced opinions” over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 04:50 UTC

  Correa and Assange, “two of a kind” writes Nobel Prize Vargas Llosa

  

  The Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are “two of a kind” because of the multiple abuses to freedom of expression committed by both, wrote Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in one of his weekly columns on current affairs.

• Friday, May 18th 2012 - 18:10 UTC

  Latam Nobel Prize blames Peronism for Argentina’s “self destruction” addiction

  

  Literature Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa blamed Peronism for the self-destruction which is leading Argentina to underdevelopment, poverty and populism, and compared the dominating political movement trajectory to that which took Adolf Hitler to power.

• Friday, March 23rd 2012 - 00:34 UTC

  Populism very much alive in Latam subtly converted to ‘delegative’ democracy

  

  Populism in Latinamerica has moved from the dictatorships of past decades to the so called “delegative” democracies such as those of Venezuela and Argentina, according to a group of Latam intellectuals meeting in Peru in an international seminar, “Latin America: opportunities and challenges”.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 00:45 UTC

  Vargas Llosa blasts Humala and Keiko: ‘it’s like choosing between cancer and aids’

  

  Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori rejected Mario Vargas Llosa’s remarks who said once again that choosing between Ollanta Humala and her, was like choosing between cancer and terminal Aids, and said that the Nobel Prize winner’s comments are “useless”.

• Tuesday, March 15th 2011 - 09:38 UTC

  Nobel laureate promises to speak about politics in Buenos Aires book fair

  

  Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa has said he will speak about politics in his inaugural speech at the international book fair in Buenos Aires after a group of intellectuals tried to veto his presence in Argentina, according to the Buenos Aires media.

• Saturday, March 5th 2011 - 05:07 UTC

  Nobel Prize Vargas Llosa calls for legalizing drugs to avoid the Mexican experience

  

  Nobel Prize winner in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa said that countries across Latin America will eventually suffer the same type of organized crime-related mayhem currently battering Mexico unless a decision is made to legalize drugs.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2011 - 06:06 UTC

  Vargas Llosa is “an enemy of Argentina and all populist governments”

  

  In spite of President Cristina Fernandez instructions to scale down the controversy over the attendance of Literature Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa to Buenos for the opening of the Book Fair, the exchanges continued Wednesday.