“He no longer writes as before”: AMLO against Vargas Llosa for not defending Peru

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador added a new page to his confrontation with the Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa, to whom he told that “he no longer writes as well as before” due to his conservative positions and reproached him for not defending Peru.

In a marathon morning conference, the Mexican president made a broad defense of the current president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, who called in recent days the Tabasco to support him in the face of alleged intentions of the opposition to overthrow him.

The president said he would like to see him “defend the democracy of PeruBecause even if there is no political or ideological sympathy or affinity, democracy is above all. “

“Said a Russian critic, when writers give themselves up completely to lies, they lose even their imagination and talent, I have no longer read something as good as what they wrote before,” he launched.

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President López Obrador considered that his Peruvian namesake Pedro Castillo is suffering a “dirty media war” that starts from the conservatism of the country.

“I do not have all the elements, but I do believe that it is suffering from a dirty media war, because although I do not have the information that is what conservatism applies throughout the world, and more so in Latin America, the control of the media, with smear campaigns of all kinds, “said the president in the National Palace.

López Obrador had already expressed his support for Castillo last Monday for the presidential impeachment attempt promoted by the opposition and which failed last week. In addition, that day he revealed that he sent to the Andean country the Secretary of Finance, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, and officials from the Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE) and the Ministry of Welfare to “support as much as we can.”

His statements came after the motion promoted by the Peruvian right and far right, including the Fujimori party Fuerza Popular, to remove the leftist Castillo.

The dismissal failed on Tuesday of last week, but he was only six votes to admit the motion and, with it, open a presidential vacancy process.

“He just came in, however, the true doctrine of conservatism is hypocrisy. He spoke to me and said ‘how can you help us?’ and I say ‘count on us’. Because that is a kind of preparation for an overthrow, it is throwing the people on top of him, “he remarked.

The presidential impeachment motion against Castillo has been the fifth presented in the Peruvian Parliament in the last four years, which prevented former presidents Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018) and Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020) from completing their terms.

López Obrador considered that “there is something worth commenting on, because it is not only the Peru“.

“During the neoliberal period, the owners of the world, because this is not spontaneous, it is not by chance, they were creating systems of government so that a popular leader could not come to govern and that if a popular leader arrived they could surround him and have him tied up” , critical.

(Luis Ramos)