Mario Vargas Llosa Calls Donald Trump 'A Threat For His Country And The Rest Of The World'

Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa presented his highly anticipated new novel novel “Cinco esquinas” in Madrid last Tuesday. At the event, the author took the time to express his views on aspiring presidential candidate Donald Trump. “The man is a threat to his own country and the rest of the world,” Vargas Llosa said. “He is a clown, a demagogue and a racist,” he continued. “I don’t think he will ever reach the White House.”

“I doubt the Republican Party will even let him be their candidate, but the fact that he’s gotten to be so popular is pretty alarming, and it shows that no country, not even the United States, is free of populisms,” Vargas Llosa continued. “Demagogy leads people to exploit fears, prejudices and insecurities which is Trump’s case. Let’s hope this race comes to an end, and if it doesn’t, these will be the elections in which Hillary Clinton massively defeats the Republicans.”

In fact, the Nobel Prize author spoke about his novel, which is very relevant to the matter, as it’s about the last weeks of Fujimori’s dictatorship. “It is a story about how sensationalist press was used by Fujimori’s dictatorship to intimidate their critics,” he explained. “Sensationalism is one of the biggest problems that our current culture faces.” Vargas Llosa went on to explain how journalists have to be responsible for what they write in the papers by not lying.