The writer and Nobel Prize winner also referred to Gustavo Petro, the Colombian president, and expressed that he sent a “fierce message against Peru.”
The writer and former presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa refers to the situation in which the country finds itself in an interview published in the Spanish newspaper The world.
First, he pointed out that despite the departure of Pedro Castillothe political context “continues to be complicated” because Dina Boluartewhom he referred to as “the vice president”, “presented himself for the same forces” and “has declared himself a Marxist-Leninist.”
Then he stated that the Peru “Much more has been screwed up” and added that the rest of the Latin American countries are the same.
“I have the impression that Peru has been screwed up much more. Well, Latin America in general. Latin America, with the exception of Uruguay and Ecuador. Brazil, screwed; Argentina, screwed; all of Central America, screwed. And Colombia, with Petro , which has sent a fierce message against Peru, because it says that the right has kidnapped Castillo!”, he said for the Spanish media.
He also commented that “he sees it very difficult” to return to Peru, since in Spain, the country where he lives, he feels “at home.”
He also mentioned his participation in the Peruvian Communist Partywhen being consulted for his literary vocation and the link of French culture.
“I was a year in the Communist Party in Peru. The communist parties were absolutely totalitarian and what defended me from sectarianism was reading Sartre, who had some essays in which he attacked Stalin a lot,” he declared.
