In China, Vargas Llosa criticized authoritarianism

In China, Vargas Llosa criticized authoritarianism: BEIJING - authoritarian governments are corrupt society, a Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa said students in China, where state media closed the speech with no mention of his political commentary.

Peruvian writer said Tuesday at the Shanghai International Studies University, which named him professor emeritus.

 Not to mention China directly, he said he wanted to show in his 1969 novel "Conversation in the Cathedral", "as dictatorial and authoritarian government corrupts all of society" and "less effective poisons political activities, those activities that are further away from politics, corrupt and degrading them. "

 "Politics must not remain solely in the hands of politicians, because then the politicians start to go wrong," the author told students of the Spanish language. "Every citizen should participate in the political life of his time. And it's best choice may lead."

 Reports in the Chinese publishing medium stuck to the comments of Vargas Llosa on the literature and as the endless media interviews after winning the Nobel Prize disrupted his life and work. The media in China are state-controlled.

 Vargas Llosa, perhaps, already unpopular with the authoritarian government, because last year he supported the jail dissident Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize which China considers it a crime.

 Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison in late 2009 on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power."

 Both men were awarded their Nobel in December, and Vargas Llosa said Liu of the Chinese fighter, which is the champion of democracy in their country. "

 Vargas Llosa in China for nine days of academic tour at the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the government think-tank whose Foreign Literature Institute will provide the author with an honorary researcher Thursday. Other Nobel Prize in the past received the same honor.