translated from Spanish: AMLO puts at risk the democratic system in Mexico: Mario Vargas Llosa

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Mexico.-Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer who won the Nobel Prize in literature 2010, warned this Sunday his concern about the dangerous symptoms he observes in the Government of Mexico headed by President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador.
“There is a concern, there are symptoms that can be built within this system, a parallel system that could be dangerous for tomorrow for Democracy,” Vargas Llosa said about the Tabasco government.
Without delving into what elements would endanger the Mexican democratic system, the author and politician called for a mobilization in defense of the institutions in Mexico “with fingernails and teeth”, opening the International Forum “Challenges of Freedom in the 21ST century “in Guadalajara, which will run from 27 to 30 May at the Santander Ensemble of Performing Arts at the University Cultural University of Guadalajara.
He said that what happens in Mexico at the political level is important because it has a direct impact on all the countries of the region and because the Mexicans recovered democracy through political alternation.
 
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The Mexicans have regained democracy a few years ago. With all the shortcomings that democracy could have, there has been considerable progress and from the economic point of view there has been progress, I think the concern that exists is real and it is interesting that the Mexican society is mobilized in defense of the Institutions.
In his message, the Nobel laureate highlighted the surprise that caused the neutrality shown by the Mexican government in the case of Venezuela by the “Latin Democrats”.
“It has saddened us that Mexico, that it was a member country of the group of Lima and that had acted in a way so solidarity with the democratic countries against the dictatorship of mature, has opted, with the new government, for a neutral position as if it could be neutral fr of bubonic plague, “he stressed.
According to the writer, both populism and dictatorships have undermined the prosperity of Latin American countries that in decades have not been able to become developed democracies.
“It is clear that policies such as Venezuela do not drive a country to prosperity and justice, but it is pushed into the abyss and self-destruction,” he said.
He argued that in the case of Venezuela “it is clear that generous and idealistic pragmatism can often, most of the time, be counterproductive and increase the problems that are to be resolved.”
He stressed that Hugo Chávez began his government democratically by being “cleanly” elected, but his promotion was “the beginning of the end of Venezuelan democracy”, because it no longer allowed elections and Venezuelans were “caught in a situation that has Impoverished savagely “to his country.
“Venezuelans starve, no food, no medicine, no electricity, no currencies, and at least three and a half million, some say that up to four have had to flee their country on foot in search of survival in neighboring countries” Expressed.
This situation has mobilized for the first time the democratic countries organized by the Organization of American States (OAS) in Defense of democracy, Vargas Llosa said.
Vargas Llosa recalled that in the decade of the 70 dictatorships in most Latin American countries prevented the development and prosperity of the region.
Now, in the first decade of the 21ST century there has been progress because there are “few dictatorships” and more democracies “born of more or less clean elections”, some of them with problems of corruption.
He stressed that there are countries like Peru that have passed the dictatorship but are immersed in corrupt governments that “undermine the possibilities of freedom and democracies.”
These governments “fall into the game of big companies” like the Brazilian Odebrech who use bribery to get public contracts and involve presidents to ministers and public officials.
“It is preferable a corrupted democracy that a dictatorship, all dictatorships without exception are deeply corrupted, but this corruption appears seldom in the public light because censorship prevents it,” he said.
The writer said that despite certain advances in economic matters, Latin American countries remain in the underdevelopment with “enormous injustices” in the economic, social, legal and cultural fields and highlighted Chile as the only nation with the possibility of achieve full development.
Chile is about to stop being an underdeveloped country, which has prospered extraordinarily, especially since the fall of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
“Thanks to a series of reforms that were made during this dictatorship and then both the left and the democracy have had the lucidity to maintain,” he considered.
Vargas Llosa said that the Democrats and Liberals must fight corruption and confront “any symptom that can lead a country to the brink of catastrophe” with “good ideas of freedom.”
 
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