Finally came the big day. The great, the sublime, the immaculate Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa is among us, on Thursday will give his excellent speech inaugurating our Book Fair and we can see up in the soup which a modern Don Quixote, giving a sinister Claymore (not on the right hand) against cruel and Peronist populism castrochavista hits and enslaves us mercilessly.
(End of irony) That's just. Before this day to come, millions of words were cast in favor and against this character and the invitation was made to open Fair. The name of Horacio González was mocked and defended with passion, and even a colleague accused Vargas Llosa to Argentina to give an example of "provincial and reactionary intolerance." The biggest impact of this episode, anyway, appears to have been the trigger the sales from the books of Nobel hispanoperuano.
No offense to anyone, let me say that this was an operetta for the fools. Actually Mario Vargas Llosa has functioned as a figurehead of the meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society , whose members are debating right now on "The threat populist in Latin America ".
several days ago had been studying with interest program of the meeting, but the journalist Werner Pertot also took the job and here described the issue in great detail. No doubt some participants have intellectual merit and not so, but I will not dwell here on the subject and I do not want to be accused of provincial and retrograde bigot "...
Only a couple of thoughts. What is the reason that this worthy society has left the pure air of the Swiss Alps by the least benefit of our city? Is it because they wanted to enjoy the hospitality of "Mayor of Buenos Aires City" ? Why are passionate about the prospect of spending an intellectual day at the countryside ? Or because Argentina is a key country in their dreams of reinstating their disastrous, failed and outdated ideas in Latin America? In short, the Mont Pelerin Society serves as an example and go a proposal to my colleagues: to see if we can put together a think tank populist "comme il faut", che.
Finally, a short paragraph about the "son of", the also famous Álvaro Vargas Llosa, co-author of Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot . Meeting the program has not as such but as a Senior Fellow of The Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute "which seems to give more prestige to be co-written the book. On the other hand, among the members of that institution can be found several participants at the meeting in Buenos Aires. All are one big family, it seems.
PS: I highly recommend reading "Balance 2008" one of the local branches of the Mont Pelerin Society and host of the meeting, the Liberty Foundation. It is a treasure chest.
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