Mario Vargas Llosa defended the legitimacy of the president To Boluarte this Wednesday, when he received the Grand Collar of the Order of the Sun, the highest national distinction, a month after entering the French Academy.
The 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature considered that “certain” foreign presidents “have intervened inappropriately in Peruvian affairs, involving neighbors and questioning the legitimacy” of the head of state.
For Vargas Llosapolitical leaders who do not recognize the Boluarte administration, including Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico) and Gustavo Petro (Colombia), were “moved for ideological reasons or political interests”.
“Democracy prevails in Peru and we firmly reject its interference, which violates international standards and the most fundamental principles of the new neighborhood”, noted the Spanish-Peruvian writer, who arrived at the honorary event with Patricia llosamother of his children.
Last February, the Nobel laureate made history by joining the French Academy, the institution responsible for ensuring the purity of Molière’s language, during a solemn ceremony in Paris, during which he assured that “the novel will save democracy or it will be thrown away.” lose with it and it will disappear”.
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