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

James Macintyre

Inside “Next Labour”

Inside “Next Labour”

John Pilger

The Murdoch empire

Welcome to the first murdochracy

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Gaby Hinsliff

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Mehdi Hasan

The Ashcroft scandal

Paying the price for Ashcroft’s millions

US Politics

Obama's henchmen

Dysfunction at the White House

Film review

Shutter Island

Shutter Island (15)

Interview

Terry Eagleton

The Books Interview: Terry Eagleton

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