Mario Vargas Llosa on the dictator Trujillo

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Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American fiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.  He also once ran for president of his native country, Peru.  Politics and literature are the driving forces in his life.  And, they often come together.  For instance, one of his most recent novels is “The Feast of the Goat” -- the story of Rafael Trujillo, the infamous dictator of the Dominican Republic.  Vargas Llosa tells Steve Paulson why he found the subject so compelling and what became of his own political ambitions.