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Tony Wood · Why did he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa in Moscow

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Your 10-digit subscription number is above your name on the address slip and begins with 400. If you subscribed via the website, you can enter the order number from your subscription confirmation email in place of your subscription number. More search Options Browse by Subject P eople​ love to talk about writers who once had radical sympathies but drifted rightwards with age. But the political evolution of the Peruvian writer and sometime politician Mario Vargas Llosa has been so startling as to inject life into that tired trope. Although he still describes himself as a liberal, the stances he has taken in recent years have followed a reactionary pattern. In 2018, he celebrated Lula’s imprisonment in Brazil on dubious corruption charges, and the following year exulted in the right-wing coup that deposed Evo Morales in Bolivia. Since then he has voiced his support for far-right candidates such as José Antonio Kast in Chile and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and in 2023 was one o

Vol. 47 No. 5 · 20 March 2025 Why did he turn? Tony Wood Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 2875 words Cinco días en Moscú: Mario Vargas Llosa y el socialismo soviético by Carlos Aguirre and Kristina Buynova . Reino de Almagro, 185 pp., £12.50, January 2024, 978 612 49274 1 6 Show More Show More P eople ​ love to talk about writers who once had radical sympathies but drifted rightwards with age. But the political evolution of the Peruvian writer and sometime politician Mario Vargas Llosa has been so startling as to inject life into that tired trope. Although he st

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