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Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa's first and foremost claim to fame is as one of Peru's most famous and acclaimed novelists. He began his literary career in the 1960's and is the author of The Cubs and Other Stories, Captain Pantoja and the Special service, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, and The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, among many others. His talent and success allowed him to spend time abroad; he studied in Madrid and lived in Paris and London. While serving on a literary-award committee in Cuba in 1966, he learned of a program to "cure" homosexuals; offended by this program, Vargas Llosa began his first venture into politics by drawing up a petition against it. In July of 1987, while listening to a speech by Peruvian President Alan Garcfa, whose politics, Vargas Llosa writes, "seemed like a time bomb," Vargas Llosa became afflicted by "the disease of politics." The affliction led him to publish a critique of Garcfa's plan to nationalize Peru's financial institutions and, ultimately, to run for the presidency of Peru in the 1990 election. This research will examine the presidential campaign of Mario Vargas Llosa, paying particular attention to the issues which his campaign emphasized.

Before Vargas Llosa could assemble the forces necessary to run an effective campaign, he needed a base of backers. Toward that end, he, as leader of the "independents," allied himself and his group with two other parties, the AP and the PPC and created a new party, the Democratic Front. Although many critics condemned this alliance because it "took away the freshness and the newness of [Vargas Llosa's] candidacy," Vargas Llosa had two primary reasons for his decision: 1) he needed a broad popular base in order to have any hope of success in the many reforms necessary in Peru; and 2) he felt that organizing a new party for the purposes of his campaign would fail simply because there would not be enough time for the party to establish itself i...

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