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<title><![CDATA[Alvaro Vargas Llosa - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15318.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alvaro Vargas Llosa]]></description><category domain="15318">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Inflation's Coming Back Stronger Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/568739-brace-yourself-inflations-coming-back-stronger-than-ever</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The financial chickens have finally come home to roost.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Che Guevara: Killing Machine Turned Icon]]></title>
							<link>http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1535</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Che Guevara, who did so much (or was it so little?) to destroy capitalism, is now a quintessential capitalist brand. His likeness adorns mugs, hoodies, lighters, key chains, wallets, baseball caps, toques, bandannas, tank tops, club shirts, couture bags, denim jeans, herbal tea, and of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hasta La Vista]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/11/hasta_la_vista_109810.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- A few weeks ago, I shared with my colleagues at The Washington Post Writers Group my wish to discontinue writing my column because of some changes in my personal life, about which more in a moment. I have nothing but gratitude for their hospitality the past five years and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pakistan's Complicity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/04/pakistans_complicity_109744.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- That Osama bin Laden chose as a refuge a scenic summer resort in Pakistan, a country where he knew the United States had pretty much a free hand against al-Qaeda, says it all. We need not question the Pentagon or any other Western military establishment when they tell us...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cuban-Style &quot;Updating&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/27/cuban-style_updating_109668.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES -- The point of the recent Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, we had been led to believe, was to rejuvenate and modernize the structures of the state -- even though the 15-member Politburo elected during the gathering is dominated by septuagenarians and octogenarians...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bailouts in Populism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/20/bailouts_in_populism_109601.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The political consequences for the European Union of bailing out Greece, Ireland and very likely Portugal are disturbingly clear: a rise of populist sentiment around the continent cunningly exploited by nationalist parties once considered on the fringe. True Finns, a party...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Peru: The Other Half]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/13/peru_the_other_half_109535.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The recent Peruvian elections produced the results that many had feared. At a time of unprecedented political stability and economic boom in Peru, the voters have opted for two candidates with authoritarian credentials who will face each other in a runoff.
The first, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whither Brazil?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/06/whither_brazil_109460.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SAO PAULO -- Brazil is routinely mentioned, together with China and India, as an emerging giant. Brazilians agree. As a liberal democracy, the country has a political edge over China; as a cultural mosaic, it is more integrated than India. But does Brazil's socioeconomic model guarantee...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Latin America -- No Drama, Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/30/latin_america_--_no_drama_obama_109394.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SAO PAULO -- Many Latin Americans are bemoaning the fact that President Obama's trip to the region was overshadowed by events in Libya and Japan, and that the visitor made no announcement of a major policy initiative. They are wrong. Relations between countries are best when they are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nuclear Hysteria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/23/nuclear_hysteria_109318.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MADRID -- Few parts of the world have experienced a psychosis comparable to that of a good many Europeans following the events unfolding at Japan's earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The European Union's energy commissioner, Guenther Oettinger, went from declaring...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Trip to Latin America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/16/obamas_trip_to_latin_america_109242.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- President Obama's visit to Chile, Brazil and El Salvador next week should not raise hopes about a grandiose outcome. The region's positive dynamic -- the explosion of the middle class and the marginalization of the extreme left -- is one on which the United States has had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should Mexico Go 'The British Way'?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/09/should_mexico_go_the_british_way_109165.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY -- As Mexico's 2012 presidential election comes into focus, the question is whether the governing center-right PAN and the opposition's left-wing PRD will present a coalition candidate, as they have done in gubernatorial races, against the PRI, which is leading the polls....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oil at $150?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/02/oil_at_150_109082.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Oil has a funny way of concentrating people's minds when it starts hovering around $100 per barrel, as it has of late due to the turbulence in the Middle East and North Africa, where six out of every 10 barrels of known reserves are located. Suddenly, the specter of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin Matters to the World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/23/wisconsin_matters_to_the_world_108995.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Until a few weeks ago, there was a disconnect between the financial disaster the United States faces and the battles its mainstream political actors were waging. The White House and Congress were busy expanding government while anti-government critics, including the tea...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and Brazil -- A Frest Start]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/16/obama_and_brazil_--_a_frest_start_108912.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- One has learned not to pin too many hopes on presidential diplomacy, but Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Latin America is an opportunity to reshape relations with Brazil.
He will also be visiting Chile and El Salvador. In El Salvador, a courageous center-left president,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Won, Who Lost in Egypt?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/09/who_won_who_lost_in_egypt_108828.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It is becoming apparent by the day that the wrong people are winning and the right people are losing in Egypt.
Hosni Mubarak had indicated he would not seek re-election long before the uprising, which is why he was grooming possible heirs. The standard by which to judge how...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neither Justice Nor Stability]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/02/neither_justice_nor_stability_108741.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- A few days ago in Beirut, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt switched his support from Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a symbol of pro-Western, anti-Syrian Sunnis, to Najib Mikati, a businessman supported by Hezbollah, because Mikati was willing to turn a blind eye to the evidence...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Specter of Inflation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/27/the_specter_of_inflation_108657.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Readers might remember that from time to time, I fret about the danger of price inflation due to the frenetic printing of money going on in the world. As a survivor of hyperinflation (Peru, 1980s), I suppose you can't blame me. In any case, symptoms of price inflation have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Baby Doc's Return]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/19/baby_docs_return_108575.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has returned to Haiti after 25 years in exile in France. By all indications, Duvalier has done so with assurances of protection from President Rene Preval, who finds himself involved in a bitter dispute over accusations that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bolivia's Mayhem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/12/bolivias_mayhem_108507.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LIMA, Peru -- Bolivia has been shaken by violent protests that have pushed Evo Morales' populist government against the ropes for the first time since he assumed power five years ago. There have been other political crises under his tenure, but now the revolt has come from his own...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Carlos Andres Perez's Prediction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/05/carlos_andres_perezs_prediction_108435.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LIMA, Peru -- The tragedy of Carlos Andres Perez, the epoch-making two-time president of Venezuela whose recent death in exile has reverberated politically across the Spanish-speaking world, is also his country's tragedy -- and that of the few Latin American nations in which republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Latin America, 2011]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/29/latin_america_2011_108375.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LIMA, Peru -- Latin America's big question is whether the political obstacles, which need to be removed in order for the major socioeconomic transformation currently going on in the region to be completed, will continue to exist. The coming year could be decisive. The four places to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pakistan's Crooked Roots]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/22/pakistans_crooked_roots_108322.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Hardly a day goes by without news about the penetration of the Pakistani state by Islamic fanaticism and the connection between that country's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate and radical groups in Afghanistan, including the Taliban. Fortunately for those who want to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brighter Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/15/the_brighter_europe_108247.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[STOCKHOLM -- Not everything in the European Union is rotten. A few countries stand out for grounding their economic model on sounder foundations in the second part of this waning decade. They show the rest of Europe the way.
Sweden is one such case. In the last quarter, this Scandinavian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Latin America: Wikileaks Relief]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/08/latin_america_wikileaks_relief_108186.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- What the official U.S. documents divulged so far by WikiLeaks reveal concerning Latin America is actually somewhat comforting. It turns out that Washington along with many center-left governments in the region and Spain's ruling socialists were not naive in expressing their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bullying Ireland]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/01/bullying_ireland_108104.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Irish bailout recently approved by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund is serving as a pretext for governments (France, Germany), multilateral institutions (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and others to bully Dublin into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Return of Stagflation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/24/the_return_of_stagflation_108052.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- We are entering an era of high inflation, to judge by the massive growth of the money supply in the United States, Europe and Asia, and the stubbornness of central bankers who insist that high unemployment demands the creation of even more money. The last time the world...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ortega's Google Army]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/17/ortegas_google_army_107980.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- 21st century revolutionaries apparently learned from their 20th century predecessors that the problem was not the methods but the ideals, so they got rid of the ideals and kept the methods. This explains the conduct of a few noisy Latin American governments. That would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stealth Protectionism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/10/stealth_protectionism_107905.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- We have heard every major world leader reject the notion that protectionism would be an appropriate response to the financial and economic debacle of 2007-08. And yet the signs are unmistakable: We are entering a protectionist era that does not speak its name. Canada's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Liu Xiaobo]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/27/the_meaning_of_liu_xiaobo_107744.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Chinese writer and freedom activist Liu Xiaobo, now serving a prison sentence for "inciting subversion of state power," is helping to refocus the meaning of China's rise. The attention that Liu's plight is bringing to the contradiction...]]></description>
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