Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Topics: Peruvian people, Peruvian writers

Alvaro Vargas Llosa is a writer and political commentator on international affairs with emphasis on Latin America. In 2007, he was nominated Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland. He is currently the director of the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute, and his articles are syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group in both English and Spanish throughout the U.S. Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He is a proponent of free-market economics and democracy under the rule of law, calling for more open trade between Latin America and the United States. He has been critical of the legacies of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Cuba and Bolivia, and more recently, the policies of the Hugo Chavez government in Venezuela and the Evo Morales government in Bolivia. He is a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation.

Vargas Llosa is the son of writer Mario Vargas Llosa and the brother of UNHCR representative Gonzalo Vargas Llosa and photographer Morgana Vargas Llosa. He is married, has a son and a daughter, and lives in Washington, D.C. He holds Spanish and Peruvian citizenship.

No Left Turn - An op-ed by Vargas Llosa on the December 2005 election of President Evo Morales in Bolivia.