Mario Vargas Llosa: Peru's suspended congress are 'semi-illiterate swindlers'

Nobel-prize winning author remarks after president dismissed deputies as the country is rocked by a constitutional crisis

Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa has praised Peru's president Martin Vizcarra for dismissing the country's rightwing opposition-dominated parliament which he said was made up of "semi-illiterate swindlers".

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