Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa said in an interview with the newspaper Perfil that the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, heads along with the government of Cuba “a reactionary left, troglodyte, which still believes in communism and statism”, along with the Bolivian Evo Morales and the Ecuadorian Rafael Correa.

This is opposed to “a liberal, progressive left”, which defends the capitalism and the economy market, as it happens with the Chilean Michelle Bachelet, the Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Uruguayan Tabaré Vázquez.

Nevertheless, at his 73 years old and with a long way not only on culture but also on politics (he was a presidential candidate for Peru in 1990), he does not manage to understand the Kirchner, whom he considers to be the exponents of a “political and intellectual degradation”, and to the Argentina in that political and ideological map.

“I always get perplexed and confused whenever people ask me about Argentina. I believe that I understand everything about Latin-American politics except for Argentina. For me, Argentina is kind of a indecipherable gobbledygook”, added Vargas LLosa and concluded saying that Argentina: “a country that was democratic when three parts of Europe were not; a country that was one of the most prosperous of the Earth when Latin America was a continent of hunger. The first country of the world that end to illiteracy was not the United States, it was not France; it was Argentina with an educational system that was an example for the whole world and that was constituting an extraordinary instrument of creation of equal opportunity for all citizens. That country, a vanguard country: how can it be the impoverished, chaotic, underdeveloped country that is today? What happened? Was it invaded? Was it in a terrible war? No. The Argentinians did that to themselves. The Argentinians chose throughout half a century the worst options and also they kept on choosing the worst options in spite of all the negative experiences”.