Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes


... the perfect dictatorship.


Context

Description of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which ruled Mexico for 71 straight years.


Citations

Mario Vargas, Llosa, quoted in Grillo, "Pena Nieto's Terrible Summer", The New York Times, September 2, 2016

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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Born: March 28, 1936
  • Nationality: Peruvian
  • Profession: Writer

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (/ˈvɑːrɡəs ˈjoʊsə/; Spanish: [ˈmaɾjo ˈbaɾɣas ˈʎosa]), is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."