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Sam Jones in Madrid and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Author Mario Vargas Llosa backs Bolsonaro over Lula in Brazil election

Mario Vargas Llosa
The Nobel prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa has drifted further to the right with age. Photograph: Raúl Martínez/EPA

The Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa, Latin America’s most eminent living chronicler of power and corruption, has declared a preference for Jair Bolsonaro over Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil prepares to head to the polls later this year.

The 86-year-old Peruvian writer, who also holds Spanish citizenship, revealed his thoughts on October’s election during a talk in Uruguay on Wednesday.

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