Álvaro Vargas-Llosa

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Álvaro Mario Vargas-Llosa, 2nd Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 18 March 1966) is a Peruvian-Spanish writer and political commentator and public speaker on international affairs. He is also the writer and presenter of a documentary series for National Geographic Channel on contemporary Latin American history that is being shown around the world. He is the President of the Fundación International para la Libertad (FIL) and of the Cátedra Vargas Llosa. He was very involved in the struggle for the return of democracy in Peru at the end of the 1990s and the years 2000–2001. He was a member of the Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy together with several former heads of government, notable business people and public intellectuals. He speaks English, Spanish and French. Vargas-Llosa is the eldest son of writer and Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and his second wife (and first cousin) Patricia Llosa. He is the brother of UNHCR representative Gonzalo Vargas-Llosa and photographer Morgana...

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