Mario Vargas Llosa

Articles by Mario Vargas Llosa

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The fence of lies

  • 06 November 2006

The rich are prepared to pay $50 an hour for someone to clean their houses. Agriculture would grind to a halt without Mexican and central American immigrants. So, ahead of the midterm congressional elections, Mario Vargas Llosa asks why the US needs to invest billions in a 700-mile-long barrier to stop illegal immigration

Democracy and demons

  • 31 October 2005

It provokes extreme passions. From a country the size of Wales, conflicts and arguments touch lives and shake economies across the globe. What is really going on, and are things changing? In the pages that follow, distinguished writers analyse the phenomenon that is Israel, its people, its past and its future, while here Mario Vargas Llosa introduces a nation he both admires and fears

Before V S Naipaul would come to dinner, he dictated the menu and said he always drank champagne

  • 25 March 2002

Golden globe

  • 05 March 2001

Is globalisation simply the extension of US imperialism, or are we suffering from a persecution complex, asks Mario Vargas Llosa

Afghanistan

Doomed to failure

Two sides of the Coin

Hung parliament

Who would rule?

Doing deals in Downing Street

Interview

Seymour Hersh

The NS Interview: Seymour Hersh

Television

Paradox

Paradox

What if...

The Beatles never formed

What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

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