The Andean Engagé
The politically committed intellectual may be a dying breed in much of the world, but not in Latin America. Indeed, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa may well have played a decisive role in Peru's recent presidential election.
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MEXICO CITY – The role of the politically committed intellectual has a long and ubiquitous history. The Spanish-French novelist and screenwriter Jorge Semprún, who died recently, was for many years a member of the Spanish Communist Party’s Central Committee, and subsequently served as Minister of Culture in Spain’s first post-Franco Socialist government. Dissidents like Václav Havel had a decisive impact in the downfall of Eastern Europe’s communist regimes.