On March 28, 1936, Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was born. This recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature ran, in 1990, for the presidency of Peru, but lost to Alberto Fujimori. His novels include La casa verde (The Green House), La guerra del fin del mundo (The War of the End of the World), La fiesta del chivo (The Feast of the Goat), and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, which was filmed as Tune in Tomorrow.
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During the campaign, Fujimori depicted the liberal Vargas Llosa as a dangerous radical. In power, Fujimori established himself as a dictator, who ordered kidnappings and murders, and engaged in embezzlement.
(American leftists label both the liberal Vargas Llosa and the technocrat Fujimori as “neoliberal”, illustrating how useless that label is other than to provoke an emotive response.)