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“... he describes. In Cinco días en Moscú (‘Five Days in Moscow’), the Peruvian historian Carlos Aguirre and the Russian scholar of Latin America Kristina Buynova draw on Soviet archival materials and Vargas Llosa’s correspondence to reconstruct his visit (many of the original documents are included in the book). What emerges from their careful ...”

“... into uncharted waters. There are several rafts as well as a phantom schooner stuck up a tree in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), the film about a berserk conquistador which established him as a leading figure in German New Wave cinema; and a steamboat hauled over the isthmus separating two tributaries of the Amazon, and then flushed down a flight of ...”

“... he is part of the Spanish heritage in America. The country that gave you Cortez, Pizarro and Aguirre and the Conquistador now gives you the Caudillo! I give you the Latin American Caudillo. In Spain, Francisco Franco wanted to be called El Caudillo, Por la Gracia de Dios. And Castro is an updated avatar of the Spanish Caudillo. There have been other such ...”