Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, attended the opening of the exhibition "Scarf of Hope" in the municipal gallery Pancho Fierro
In a column published today by the English newspaper El Pais, Vargas Llosa is also launching the signatories of the open letter requesting that he withdraw the invitation to inaugurate the fair, a comparison with the situation in countries like Cuba and Venezuela.
"What kind of intellectuals Kirchner Argentina want? A new Cuba? "Says the novelist, winner of last year with the Nobel Prize for Literature. The model, he adds, may be the "troubled Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, whose government is accused of" trampling freedom of expression "and a" growing repression. "
The signatories of the letter are "much closer" to the "piqueteros kircheristas" two years ago tried to assault him with a delegation that traveled to by the province of Argentina, Rosario, also criticized the award-winning writer.
The text mentions among others, director of the National Library of Argentina, Horacio González, the architect of the Open Letter.
"I am sorry that this tentaviva who headed," says the author of "Conversation in the Cathedral", was "someone who is now the site that Jorge Luis Borges dignified."
Vargas Llosa also defended his right to speak of countries that are not his and suggested that it is possibly the opposite idea that motivated the letter. "What seems to offend" the signatories said, "is that me being a foreigner meddling in the affairs Argentines. "
"Nationalism is an ideology that has always served the most bigoted," he says and refers to one of the liberators of South America, the Argentine José de San Martín, Rosario and even revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara to justify their participation in discussions in other countries. Vargas Llosa also
fault again Peronism by "economic and cultural decline of the only Latin American country became a first world country."
Before that, however, is expressed in more benevolent terms of the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kircher, for opposing to the Open Letter.
"I was somewhat agree with President Cristina Fernandez, said the novelist, who has criticized harshly in the past to the president and her late husband, former President Nestor Kirchner.
