translated from Spanish: Vargas Llosa defends Mauricio Rojas: “Hold that denies the horrors of Pinochet is nonsense”

from August 13 to Mauricio Rojas desapar ecio from public life after giving up the post of Minister of culture and the arts, which lasted for three days. But that short period of time served so many people support the writer.
The latest in joining was the renowned writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who in his column of the newspaper La Nación of Argentina, defends the former Minister of the “false accusation” that took out it of the office: “deduct and hold that Mauricio denies the horrors committed by the” Pinochet regime is a nonsense without head and feet”.
The “false accusation” referred to in the Peruvian Nobel Prize is the event where Rojas qualifies as “mount” to the Museum of memory. For the writer, was a maneuver on the left: “its quick passage through the Government naive of me, reformed and democratic was due to an impeccable operation to discredit and slander of a left which I thought,. I was wrong: remains the same that contributed, with its sectarian extremist and unrealistic in times of Salvador Allende, and incendiary rhetoric to destroy the Chilean democracy and bring to power the bloody Pinochet regime, which, of course, hit it to close-range”.
After a brief overview of the life of Rojas, Vargas Llosa argued that “I have a great admiration for him, because I consider it one of the most clean and decent people I’ve had the privilege of trying”.
The writer also reviewed on the Chilean left, sending him a message: “instead of encarnizar are riding grotesque distortions like this that has been victim Mauricio Rojas, would do well that left that still represents an important segment of society Chilean, to examine with a critical eye their mistakes and excesses that incandescent period of Chilean history, to better contribute to improve this democracy that Chile has recovered and, lest we forget, it has become the Latin American country that “progresses faster in all directions: the political, the social and economic”.
“Pity that this victory of hepatic revanchism prive to Chile of a Minister who had also left a mark of progress in the Chilean reality in the cultural field,” he said, assuring that “those who got out of bad ways of the Ministry that soon he became should not hurry to claim victory. “The battle has just begun and will be long, but, I put my hand to the fire, sooner or later Mauricio Rojas is the winner”.

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