“Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

¿Tienen algo que ver con los intereses de los humildes las querellas retóricas de los partidos burgueses?
The War at the End of the World (1981)

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