Mario Vargas Llosa: "The Peruvian crisis is relative because there is democracy here"

Updated 03/08/2023 10:01 PM m.

Mario Vargas Llosa was decorated with the great Collar of the order ‘the sun of Peru’ by the president Dina Boluarte in the Government Palace. After that, he gave a brief press conference in which he commented on the political and social crisis in which the country is located, delimiting that “the process has manifested itself within the law” since President Boluarte “is on very solid foundations” for which we only have to wish her “great success”, in addition to the fact that in the country ‘there is democracy’.

The writer pointed out that although “There are many problems ahead, the president will solve them little by little”Well, the case of Peru is “absolutely democratic” because Congress and the Judiciary have rectified that the Boluarte government is legitimate.

When asked about the more than 60 deaths caused by the social crisis, Vargas Llosa pointed out that “The transmission of command should be enough for Peruvians to feel that the laws have been respected.” with respect to the executive branch. For the Nobel, the current context will be resolved without major change in the political sphere.

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When questioned about the legitimacy of Dina Boluarte, Vargas Llosa insisted: “Se is ‘a relative crisis’ because there is democracy in the country… evolution allowed for the first time in the history of Peru a woman to be president and that should be enough”. The Nobel Prize winner also said that “it is a good sign that the Armed Forces have not intervened” as they did before.