On Saturday, Vargas Llosa wrote a column for Spain’s newspaper El País, in which the author shared his reflections on the coronavirus. Among other points, Vargas Llosa noted that the virus had originated in China, and went on to note that China had censored at least one of the doctors who had originally detected the virus. Vargas Llosa, who has previously received the Nobel Prize for Literature, concluded that China’s censorship meant that “the presence of the plague was recognized only when the virus was already spreading… true progress is always crippled when it is not accompanied by freedom.”
onsdag 1. april 2020
CHINA’S SMEAR OF MARIO VARGAS LLOSA AN ATTEMPT TO SILENCE CRITICISM
The Chinese government’s criticism and apparent censorship of celebrated Peruvian author and former president of PEN International Mario Vargas Llosa, in apparent retaliation for the writer’s recent editorial on the coronavirus, is an unwarranted attempt to influence the conversation around the pandemic by retaliating against critics, PEN America said today.
On Saturday, Vargas Llosa wrote a column for Spain’s newspaper El País, in which the author shared his reflections on the coronavirus. Among other points, Vargas Llosa noted that the virus had originated in China, and went on to note that China had censored at least one of the doctors who had originally detected the virus. Vargas Llosa, who has previously received the Nobel Prize for Literature, concluded that China’s censorship meant that “the presence of the plague was recognized only when the virus was already spreading… true progress is always crippled when it is not accompanied by freedom.”
On Saturday, Vargas Llosa wrote a column for Spain’s newspaper El País, in which the author shared his reflections on the coronavirus. Among other points, Vargas Llosa noted that the virus had originated in China, and went on to note that China had censored at least one of the doctors who had originally detected the virus. Vargas Llosa, who has previously received the Nobel Prize for Literature, concluded that China’s censorship meant that “the presence of the plague was recognized only when the virus was already spreading… true progress is always crippled when it is not accompanied by freedom.”
