Mario Vargas Llosa
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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.
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any cases. In the end, things were even worse for the peasants than they had been previously.
Vargas Llosa therefore hoped, should he be elected President, to attempt to redistribute the wealth of Peru to counteract the previous thirty years' worth of damage, in which "Peru had done everything possible to ensure that there would be more and more poor people and that its poor would each day be more impoverished still." Such a redistribution would not be possible in a strictly egalitarian way, however, as he discovered, to his distress, after studying the Peruvian economy with two Peruvian economists.
The plan, therefore, was to establish and encourage a strong market economy. After many trips to the poor, central mountain regions of Peru, Vargas Llosa realized that to jump-start the economy, it would be necessary to
Reopen the mines that had been closed for lack of incentives to export . . . attract capital and technology in order to open new companies . . . put an end to the price controls on agricultural products whereby the Aprista administration condemned peasants to subsidize the cities . . . give title deeds to the hundreds of thousands of peasants whose land had been divided up by the cooperatives and do away wit
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