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He discovered politics at the age of 12, when General Manuel Odría overthrew a democratic government in Peru headed by a cousin of his maternal grandfather.

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Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has ...