Álvaro Vargas Llosa: “the Traditional Right Is Being Displaced Everywhere”

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Álvaro Vargas Llosa (Lima, 1966) has been one of the most acute observers of Latin American reality for several decades. An essayist and journalist – and liberal like his father, Mario Vargas Llosa – for these days has closely monitored the triumph of José Antonio Kast in last Sunday’s elections. “Perhaps the margin of his victory has surprised me a bit,” he acknowledges in this interview with La Tercera via Zoom from New York. On January 6, Var…