Vargas Llosa celebrates the failure of Castillo's self-coup: "I congratulate the Peruvian military"

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Mario Vargas Llosa

, Nobel Prize for Literature and former candidate for the Presidency of Peru, has expressed this Thursday his condemnation "in the strongest terms" against the self-coup carried out by

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Still from his position as president, the president decreed on Wednesday the dissolution of Congress shortly before it began to debate his removal.

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Arrested and investigated for rebellion, this Thursday he participated in a hearing from prison to evaluate the preliminary prison request against him.

In a message broadcast on video, Vargas Llosa underlines his desire to "congratulate the Peruvian military for having identified with the laws and rejecting the role of comparsas that the former president wanted to inflict on them."

Ignoring the curfew and the emergency situation decreed by Castillo, the

, guaranteeing order while Congress approved his dismissal.

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"The way in which this coup d'état has been resolved can be seen in a positive way for Peru,"

the writer also affirms, who compares Castillo's unsuccessful movement with the one led by then-President Fujimori in 1992 and which did have the support of the Armed Forces.

For all these reasons, the Nobel Prize winner stresses that we are living in "an optimistic and happy moment for our country."

In this message recorded in Madrid, where he usually resides, Vargas Llosa celebrates that in Peru "we have a female president for the first time" and calls on her to form a coalition government.

," concludes the prestigious Spanish-Peruvian intellectual.

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