Mario Vargas Llosa on "The Feast of the Goat"

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Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American writing.  His novel “The Feast of the Goat” deals with the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Vargas Llosa tells Steve Paulson why he found the subject so compelling and what became of his own political ambitions. Vargas Llosa once ran for president in his native Peru.