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Author "Mario Vargas Llosa compared Peru's presidential candidates to cancer and Aids, but in choosing one over the other the nobel laureate has triggered an angry backlash.
Commentators and bloggers have criticised Vargas Llosa for backing Ollanta Humala, a populist former army officer, as the lesser evil in the June election.
The novelist said he would vote for Humala "unhappily and with fear" because the alternative, Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of the disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori, presented an even graver threat to democracy.
Critics of Vargas Llosa, normally a revered figure in Peru and across Latin America, predicted he would rue his choice if Humala becomes president and emulates his one-time mentor, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez."
