While social networks echoed the victory of Lula da Silvasome users recalled the “Curse Vargas Llosa” trickery that ensures that every time the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner expresses his favoritism for a candidate in the middle of an electoral process, he is the loser.
And this time it was no different: “Between (Jair) Bolsonaro with clowning, and Lula, I prefer Bolsonaro,” he had said Vargas Llosa in a talk at the Center for Development Studies in Montevideo, in which he also stated that Lula was a “thief” who was “imprisoned”. The polls finally spoke, and Jair Bolsonaro, the favorite of Vargas Llosa, lost against Lula: 49.1% against 50.9%, a difference of two million Brazilian votes.
In Argentina, the “curse of Vargas Llosa” would have been executed, as the networks recalled, during the 2019 elections, when the Peruvian writer expressed his support for Mauricio Macri, and affirmed that the defeat of the PRO candidate would lead the country to “barbarism”. Alberto Fernandezthe candidate of the Frente de Todos, prevailed in said election with 48.24% of the votes.
A year later, in Bolivia the same case occurred. In that opportunity, Vargas Llosa spoke out in favor of Carlos Mesaopponent of the leftist louis arce, appointed by Evo Morales as his successor. “It is support for freedom,” Vargas Llosa said. Through a video, the author of “The city and the dogs” called “all the opposition” to do “a fist around Carlos Mesawho is the candidate in the best conditions” to defeat Arce. The latter ended up winning with 55.1% of the votes, almost double that of Mesa, who got 28.8%.
Last year, in the 2021 Peruvian elections, Vargas Llosa supported Keiko Fujimoridaughter of the former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori whom Vargas Llosa had fought hard in the past. On that occasion, the novelist had said in his Sunday column in the Spanish newspaper El País that “if peter castle won the election, Marxism-Leninism-Mariateguism (as his hosts define it) will come to power waved and sacramented with the votes of the Peruvians”. One more time, the electorate did not follow the wishes of Vargas Llosa: Castillo, the candidate of the left, prevailed in those elections by a narrow margin.
With Chile, the Peruvian predictions found a new setback. In 2021 he supported the extreme right-wing Pinochet candidate, Jose Antonio Kast, who lost against the current Chilean president Gabriel Boric, which added 55.87% of the votes (Kast 44.13%). Bad choices that cabal fans translate into “curse.”
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