Under the Cassock May 13, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—The sex scandal of the Rev. Alberto Cutie, a Catholic priest well-known throughout the Spanish-speaking world who was photographed frolicking with a woman […]
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An American Eccentric
An American Eccentric May 6, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—With the market value of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway down 30 percent in the last year, financial oracles seem highly overrated. But a […]
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Should the Cuban Embargo be Lifted?
Should the Cuban Embargo be Lifted? April 29, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Most Americans seem to reject the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. According to a Washington Post/ABC poll, 57 percent of […]
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The Idiot’s Bible
The Idiot’s Bible April 22, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Hugo Chavez’s gift to President Obama at the recent Summit of the Americas—a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s “Open Veins of Latin America”—has many […]
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The Summit of the Americas—Memo to Obama
The Summit of the Americas—Memo to Obama April 15, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Memo to President Obama: The Summit of the Americas taking place in Trinidad & Tobago this week will be […]
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Crime of State
Crime of State April 8, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison this week by Peru’s Supreme Court in connection with two massacres […]
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Angela Merkel, Voice of Reason
Angela Merkel, Voice of Reason April 1, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Amid the panic of the hour, with governments creating, borrowing and spending money like drunken sailors, German Chancellor Angela Merkel […]
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Has the G-20 Learned the Lesson?
Has the G-20 Learned the Lesson? March 25, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Anticipation in advance of the coming Group of 20 meeting in London centers on doing something about the excesses […]
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Peru’s Legacy of Graft
Peru’s Legacy of Graft March 18, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Most books on corruption in Latin America are politically biased, confuse symptoms with causes or get mired in the purely sensational. […]
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Time to Decriminalize It?
Time to Decriminalize It? March 11, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—A decade ago, the U.N. General Assembly set an objective of “eliminating or significantly reducing” narcotics cultivation and trafficking “by the […]
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