Word: llosa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mario Vargas Llosa...
BELLE FICTION: In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa -- Would you believe an erotic family novel? The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The autumn of Simon Bolivar. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut -- Meditations of a Vietnam vet in 2001. Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry -- Calamity Jane, Bill Cody and Sitting Bull whoop it up. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- Environmental catastrophe meets Native American mythology. The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff -- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the factual bombing of Move headquarters...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA...
After handily defeating celebrity novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in last week's presidential runoff, Alberto Fujimori made it clear that he has no intention of administering strong medicine to Peru's exhausted economy. The bespectacled former university professor reaffirmed his campaign promise that he would avoid "shock" therapy that might hurt the poor...
Like Vargas Llosa, Cambio's leader advocates generally conservative policies. To stop the hyperinflation that now races ahead at nearly 3,000% annually, he favors a return to free markets. But unlike Vargas Llosa, he does not want to privatize all of Peru's 138 state-run enterprises. In the U.S.-based war on drugs, Fujimori would not eradicate Peru's vast coca-growing areas with herbicides, but would train farmers to plant replacement crops such as achiote and coffee. He also told TIME, "I'm not going to dialogue with the Sendero," the Shining Path guerrillas who roam freely...