In a sense, Vargas Llosa is a contradictory committed figure: in the European meaning of the word, he is probably the most liberal of Latin America’s public intellectuals, but also the most vocal and daring. He put his money where his mouth was by running for Peru’s presidency, and he became a virtual king-maker by throwing his support to Ollanta Humala, who has apparently abandoned populism to embrace the tenets of the modern Latin American democratic left.
从某种意义上讲，巴尔加斯·略萨是位有争议的参政人物：在欧洲人看来，他或许不仅是拉美公众知识分子中最信奉自由的一个，而且在他们当中也最大胆敢言。他通过参选秘鲁总统用实实在在的资金和行动支持了自己的观点，他对奥兰塔·乌马拉的支持最终决定了选举的结果，乌马拉似乎放弃了民粹主义，开始接受现代拉美民主左派的处事原则。