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Widely regarded as one of the world's top novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a self-proclaimed "radical liberal" who extols the virtues of the free-market economy. That view has fallen out of favor throughout much of Latin America--most recently contributing to the civil strife that toppled Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada--but the award-winning Peruvian writer insists that economic freedom and political liberty must go hand in hand. Vargas Llosa, 67, has taken up temporary residence in Washington, where he is spending the fall semester at Georgetown University as a ...

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