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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The Nobel committee was right to award Mario Vargas Llosa the prize for literature this year.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Vargas Llosa is one of the pre-eminent writers in the Spanish-speaking world, and also one of its most contentious intellectual figures. Revered for his mastery of literary form and his groundbreaking techniques, he belongs in the company of Octavio Paz and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, both of whom have also won the Nobel Prize in literature.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Before Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff, bullish Citigroup strategists dubbed the United States a “plutonomy.” They said, “There are rich consumers, few in number, but disproportionate in the gigantic slice of income and consumption they take. There are the rest, the ‘non-rich,’ the multitudinous many, but only accounting for surprisingly small bites of the national pie.”</p>

Por: Paco Zavala

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
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