Mario Vargas Llosa

“Vargas Llosa is the opposite of a ‘conservative’ writer. He is a liberal intellectual. And it is today, faced with the currents of intolerance that persist in Latin America, that we will at last vindicate the legitimacy of a liberal democratic telling of history. It is a liberal project, a civilizing project par excellence; it is what founded our nations, and it is what Vargas Llosa brings to life in his life and his works. Faced with authoritarian power, the liberal soul makes no distinctions….(He) believed in the Cuban Revolution…because he believed it was his fate to be a liberator of men.”