Nobel Author Says Mexico has Shifted from Dictatorship to Democracy Since 1990 David Iaconangelo - Latin Times
go to original December 23, 2013

América Latina desde la visión de Vargas Llosa (CNNMéxico)

Mario Vargas Llosa, whose 1990 barb characterizing the Mexican political system as a “perfect dictatorship” has remained lodged in the psyche of the country’s political class, thinks that Mexico has put itself in the right direction. In an interview with CNN, the Peruvian novelist and one-time presidential hopeful said he believed the country had made considerable progress in the 23 years which had elapsed since his comments.

“Today Mexico is a democracy, and for 70 years it wasn’t,” he said. “It was a country practically governed by a single party, although there were certain appearances of democracy. Today there’s not appearances – it’s a reality.”

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