1st Edition
The Madness of Things Peruvian Democracy under Siege
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Copyright 1994
182 Pages
by
Routledge
This book describes the demise of Peruvian democracy as a metaphor for the challenges facing the cause of freedom in Latin America in the 1990s. Vargas Llosa describes how and why Peru's democracy collapsed in April 1992, after 12 years of precarious existence. As he explains, in Peru and elsewhere in the region, the destitute have always been skeptical about the virtues of democratic systems.... Read more
Biography
Alvaro Vargas Llosa
