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Álvaro Vargas Llosa (born 1966; Peru) is a writer and political commentator on international affairs with emphasis on Latin America. In 2007, he was nominated Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland. He is currently the director of the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute, and his articles are syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group in both English and Spanish throughout the U.S. Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He is a proponent of free-market economics and democracy under the rule of law, calling for more open trade between Latin America and the United States. He has been critical of the legacies of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Cuba and Bolivia, and more recently, the policies of the Hugo Chávez government in Venezuela and the Evo Morales government in Bolivia. He is a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation.

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The Biggest Myth To Bust Before We Start Devising Our Post-Bailout Economic Future

WASHINGTON--As was the case with the 1929 crash that ushered in the Great Depression, the current financial meltdown is giving rise to myths that will influence public policy for decades to come. It is imperative that those myths be debunked before the ...

From ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA, The New Republic,  8 Oct 2008

What Do They Want The Government To Be? McCain And Obama's Fear Of The Big Idea.

WASHINGTON--John McCain won the first presidential debate, but Barack Obama probably won the election. McCain was the impatient tactician, Obama the patient strategist. Obama did not set out to debate against McCain so much as to counter the perception ...

From ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA, The New Republic,  1 Oct 2008

How The Bailout Will Embolden Petty Tyrants The World Over

WASHINGTON--Having spent part of my life in the developing world, I know that the nationalization of an industry or an institution is an act of robbery perpetrated under the pretense of altruism--sort of like putting lipstick on a pig--and that the ...

From ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA, The New Republic,  24 Sep 2008

Building A Petro-State That's Meant To Last

SAO PAULO, Brazil--In the United States, offshore drilling is so controversial that it has become the stuff of heated presidential campaign debate. But in Brazil, it is so popular that everyone wants a piece of it. The Tupi oil field, an underwater ...

From ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA, The New Republic,  17 Sep 2008

The silence of the cowed

Gibson Square, a British publishing house, has announced that it will soon release "The Jewel of Medina," a novel by American author Sherry Jones, whose publication in the United States was recently canceled by Random House for fear of triggering ...

From ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA, International Herald Tribune,  16 Sep 2008

Celebrating The Release of A (Potentially Quite Bad) Book That Fictionalizes The Life Of The Prophet Muhammad

WASHINGTON--Gibson Square, a British publishing house, has announced that it will soon release "The Jewel of Medina," a novel by American author Sherry Jones whose publication in the United States was recently canceled by Random House for fear of ...

From ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA, The New Republic,  10 Sep 2008

Kobe Bryant And The Triumph Of Internationalism At The Games

WASHINGTON--Three images from the Beijing Olympics linger in my mind: Becky Hammon, as American as they come, winning a bronze medal with the Russian women's basketball team; Liang Chow, the Chinese coach of the U.S. women's gymnastics team, embracing ...

From ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA, The New Republic,  27 Aug 2008

Obama, McCain, And America's Strange Relationship With Religion

WASHINGTON--The recent campaign forum at Saddleback Church in which U.S. presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain answered questions from pastor Rick Warren, the new star of the evangelical Christian movement, could only have happened in ...

From ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA, The New Republic,  20 Aug 2008

Putin the Terrible

WASHINGTON--In "Rebuilding Russia," published as the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote that the "awakening Russian national self-awareness has to a large extent been unable to free itself of great-power thinking ...

From ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA, The New Republic,  12 Aug 2008

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