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...After a long spell with the great Edith Grossman, then Natasha Wimmer (the translator of Roberto Bolaño), Vargas Llosa has turned to the American novelist Adrian Nathan West to translate Harsh Times....
...“Violence has become normal,” says Roberto Jacinto de la Cruz, head of the National Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism in Acapulco. “We’re used to it.”...
...It is sometimes said that he shares traits with populist strongmen such as the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo, or Argentina’s Domingo Perón and Carlos Menem — and then some....
...At least 10 were killed in a Caracas shanty town after a confrontation between local thugs armed with assault rifles, while a local mayor was gunned down outside his home in Trujillo state last month....
...“We only see positive results when we advance on both fronts,” says Roberto Campa, Mexico’s undersecretary for crime prevention....
...own Alex Trujillo, the store owner who has catered to waves of Hispanic immigration for 47 years....
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